This past Saturday, two friends and I played AoE II HD (Age of Empires II HD) online. We played a semi-custom scenario one of them had made with the three of us as a team in the middle of the map against 5 Hardest computers, high initial resources and starting …continue
Recently, I was looking at the Wordpress Admin page for this blog and everything was responding slowly. I realized that Wordpress is overkill for this blog. I have under 100 posts spread over 7 years, averaging under a post per month, I don't need a full-blown blog engine.
Also, the …continue
Firstly, let me acknowledge this is a rare problem. So the lack of documentation I ran into is totally acceptable. The problem: I have a Python package that has a C++ component that isn't an extension, it's a binary. I wanted that binary to be on the PATH of users …continue
Because I have 3 tests covering 67% of the code base and my only docs are blog posts. If you're way more adventurous than I am, the code is available at https://github.com/chainreactionmfg/cara for your daring consumption.
Edit: I didn't mean it won't be available for others …continue
After about a month of work, cara (Cap'n proto Alternative RPC API) is finally ready for internal use for Chain Reaction Mfg's main project.
The features required are finally working (and tested): 1. Send raw data and structs over the wire (like everybody else). 2. Send interfaces over the wire …continue
Up until this week, cara had been outputting its schema files something like this:
import cara
ann = cara.Annotation(name='ann', type=cara.Text)
class MyStruct(cara.Struct):
field1 = cara.Field(name='field1', type=cara.Int32)
However, this causes various problems due to capnp allowing use of types declared later …continue
Having started a new project that requires RPC, but without the benefits (and restrictions) imposed by my previous employer, I've gone on a detour towards building another RPC layer. However, knowing that building the entire layer from scratch is both a waste of time for me and would just add …continue
Ever since I was looking at the G13, I was really looking for an extra screen to put on/near the keyboard. I wanted a way to show updates from various things running the background, especially around my workflow at the time, which consisted of multiple (Linux desktop) workspaces each …continue
In one of my apps, I was including a few libraries, and the resulting code was getting rather large and hard to manage. I also couldn't get it to work when the files were separate, so I was working with them all in the same file. Having some experience with …continue