September 11, 2026 [Programming, Rust, Tech, Videos] This video doesn’t contain any code: feel free to skip it if you like, but either way I’m going to try to keep it short, so see you on the other side :-). Also, this video isn’t about the ethics of…
Read More Recent Overload journal issues contain my new articles on How to Write a Programming Language. Part 1: How to Write a Programming Language: Part 1, The Lexer Part 2: How to Write a Programming Language: Part 2, The Parser PDF of the latest issue: Overload 146 containing part…
Read More August 15, 2018 [PeerTube, Videos] I have quite a few videos hosted on YouTube that I would like to upload to my new PeerTube location, but I don’t want to install all the PeerTube dependencies on my machine, so I did it all inside a Docker image. First…
Read More The RABBOTS are coming! Get the latest version of Rabbit Escape: Android: Rabbit Escape on F-Droid (free, no ads) Android: Rabbit Escape Free on the Play Store (free, no ads) Android: Rabbit Escape on the Play Store (Pay about 60p, identical to the free one!) Linux, Windows, Mac…
Read More Add a comment Your comment Comments welcome. I review them manually, so there will be a delay before they appear. Markdown is allowed. To prevent spam, please type ‘Scheme’ below: Andy’s home page Categories Sitemap RSS Feed No AI was used to create this site or any of…
Read More August 22, 2018 [Linux, PHP, Programming, Rabbit Escape, Tech, Ubuntu] I am setting up a forum for sharing levels for my game Rabbit Escape, and I have decided to try and use Flarum, because it looks really usable and responsive, has features we need like liking posts and…
Read More August 23, 2018 [Graft, Linux, Programming, Python, Tech] Here is an almost-minimal example of a systemd service file, that I use to run the Mastodon bot of my generative art playground Graft. I made a dedicated user just to run this service, and installed Graft into /home/graft/apps/graft under…
Read More September 04, 2018 [Tech] I want all requests to artificialworlds.net/rabbit-escape/levels/ to get redirected to use the https protocol, and to include “www.” at the beginning of the URL, and I found lots of Stack Overflow articles, but nothing there worked perfectly for me. Here is how I managed…
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Read More September 05, 2018 [Tech] I found out on Mastodon recently that the Compose key exists, allowing you to enter special characters using easy-to-remember key sequences (e.g. “<compose>/=” gives you “≠“). To do this on Ubuntu (and probably many other systems), hold SHIFT, then press AltGr, release them both,…
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