Hit some speed bumps, tl;dr: the March and April issues will be combined and go up at end of April!

As part of the move to the new house, there was still one little project that needed finishing. We decided instead of being regular closets and cabinets that we’d turn a room into a walk-in closet. About a month ago we started the drawing out plans and schematics of what it might look like. We went through three or...

I did it and submitted my procedural Tangram generator (procedural, not random, because I do set and check for some constraints) to PROCJAM 2024. That is more than I achieved last year and I am proud of my little piece of creative coding. However, I would have liked to dig deeper into the topic of creating Tangrams...

Update: In exciting news, the getlocalcert.net project will continue under new management. I’m grateful to William Harrison for taking the lead on future development. Over the next month, I’ll be transferring domains, servers, and other project resources. There may be short periods of downtime during the transition,...

dmpop.xyz is one-year old today. I set it up on a whim to serve as my journal. Surprisingly, the habit of documenting my coding and photography exploits stuck, so here I am, writing a celebratory speech. It's going to be a short one. Congratulations to me, let this little place thrive and prosper. The end.

Yesterday, I gave a presentation at York University in Toronto as part of their York Circle program. The audience was comprised of York alumni.

I recently put together a small library called Slop, for intermediate on-disk data representation for the search engine, replacing a few ad-hoc formats I had in place before. This post isn’t so much an attempt to convince anyone else to use this library, as it makes trade-offs catering to a fairly niche use case,...

Annie set a WeblogPoMo challenge for this month, an Ask Me Anything: I’m calling this challenge WeblogPoMo AMA (Ask Me Anything). For this challenge I want to foster writer interaction: write a blog post starting with a question—the AMA—and then answer the question yourself in the blog post. I decided to ask my...