Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 13, 2023
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I do enjoy the process of writing. I fire up my text editor of choice, Typora and away I go. Most of the time I have a topic in my grey matter that I want to write about, and if I don’t, something usually comes to me pretty quickly. Which topics to cover aren’t something I usually dwell on.
Today I feel like writing, but I have nothing to write about. I’ve been staring at Typora’s abyssal blank screen for a little while now, but my grey matter remains as abyssal as the screen I’m staring at.
=> ↺ mail2code lets you program via email
The aptly named “mail2code” project is based around an Arduino Uno Rev3 board, which has been connected to a wide variety of peripherals to help students and hobbyists alike learn different hardware. The setup includes a DC motor attached to a central gear and a faster gear for exploring motors and interrupts, an array of eight LEDs that can act as a binary counter, a die face to explore random numbers, and a stepper motor with an accompanying Hall effect sensor that is used to learn analog signals in response to rotation.
This post is about the idea of doing away with lifetimes in Rust, what that would bring to the table and how much it would cost.
=> ↺ Use Excel to load Commodore 64 software
Loading software on a vintage computer, such as a Commodore 64, is a pain. Early eight-bit computers almost never contained any onboard persistent storage, so users had to load software from external media like cassette tapes.
=> ↺ Latent Semantic Analysis in Perl
I’m currently a little into quantitative text analysis. Not big time, but a little. A nice end goal, that I have no intention of reaching, would be a script that can suggest if a cluster of articles on this site seem similar but don’t share a tag, or if there’s a tag that might as well not exist because it’s applied to a very broad range of articles. This would help me maintain the tags that are currently assigned completely manually and, as the observant reader has noticed, rather arbitrarily.
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