I’m on vacation with my parents and little brother this week. got into Cooperstown, N.Y. yesterday afternoon, having left home around 9AM. Long drive–glad my dad was the one doing the driving. (Why wasn’t I? Because I am a horrible driver; I’ve got the metal rod in my leg to prove it.) Last night we [...]
After posting my little drooling plug for libtcod-net, the maintainer, Chris, welcomed me to contribute some code. So I did, dumping a 182KB patch in his lap the next day to start refactoring stuff and streamlining the API. So now I guess I should recommend it even more strongly, eh?
Smok on the libtcod-net forum asked [...]
So I was wandering around the Intertubes, having a hankering to play around with writing a Roguelike. (Why? Because I can.) Since I’m officially a C# snob, I needed a curses library (because my own old fake-SDL-console project, RogueSDL, quite frankly sucked–someday I’ll put it up on this site for everyone to laugh at). MonoCurses [...]
In my last blog post, I discussed a few issues I see with Linux as an operating system (as opposed to the higher-level stuff; eventually I’ll put a few words into that, but right now I’m still running with an interesting idea drawn out of a question from a friend of mine: “how do you [...]
I’ve been thinking about how to best improve the Linux* userland over the last few days. I was venting pretty loudly about my Linux gripe of the day–I don’t even remember what I was complaining about at the time, but it was a mess of shell scripting, pipes, and about half a dozen command line [...]
