I had a silly idea. I think you’ll like it.
What if you could embed Ruby on a web page, using ruby.wasm without needing to install anything locally? And what if you could use Shoes – via Scarpe – to do it?
And what if you didn’t need a dev environment or anything. Just copy the HTML file to any server you want, and it works?
Awhile back I wrote The Forty-Year Programmer. You can think of it as my declaration of programming as art, not business. It’s about taking your time and getting good gradually over many years, which works great for art, but often badly for your career.
Today I want to talk about the differences between programming-as-art and programming-as-business.
I’m continuing my blog posts on Mechanicsburg, in the Girl Genius webcomic. It will probably make more sense if you start from the beginning.
It’s really obvious from some of the comics that the authors have a strong idea of Mechanicsburg’s geography. They probably have fun sketchy maps that they...
I’m continuing my blog posts on Mechanicsburg, in the Girl Genius webcomic. It will probably make more sense if you start from the beginning.
A lot of the Girl Genius setting is told by implication. 200 years ago, they had the Storm King who united Europa in peace. Then he was...
My family and I have started playing GURPS Girl Genius and I’m running a campaign that starts when Agatha is around 5 — about 13 years before Book 1 starts. I’ve been reconstructing some combination of the modern and 15-years-earlier setting from the Girl Genius Wiki, the comic and various other sources...
I have a pretty regimented routine of powdered caffeine usage. A lovely fellow I know asked me about it recently. Occasionally people do. And I thought, I should just tell everybody.
To do that, I’ll first have to summarise something that was once online and I can’t find these days: agonistic versus antagonistic usage of stimulants. It’s simpler than it sounds.
And I’ll describe the eight-week cycle I’m on to manage my tolerance. Caffeine is an addictive drug that builds high tolerance. Most people ignore that, build their tolerance and then don’t get much benefit from it afterward. That problem can be fixed.
In the age of using internet sites for important things – social media, say, or banking – the Internet has grown status pages, to let companies know whether a particular service is currently working.
Companies have always had internal status pages. But these days most have external status pages, so non-employees can tell whether the site is working. First people outside the company started doing that, and then companies realised they couldn’t avoid it happening, so better to provide status pages for themselves.
Why is it so bad for somebody else to provide your status page? What’s different about a company’s official status page?
As I write this there’s an ugly Discord outage which is barely acknowledged on their status page, so it’s a great time for me to talk about that.
