I am perhaps susceptible to nerd-sniping and it often leads me down interesting rabbit holes. Today was one of those days. I bumped into a fun article about some obfuscated bash code on a T-shirt for sale: The obfuscated code in question is…
Factor has a native ui-backend that allows us to render our UI framework using OpenGL on top of platform-specific APIs for our primary targets of Linux, macOS, and Windows. On Linux, for a long time that has meant using the GTK2 library, wh…
DNS is the Domain Name System and is the backbone of the internet: Most prominently, it translates readily memorized domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for locating and identifying computer services and devices with the under…
“Keep thy airspeed up, lest the earth come from below and smite thee.” - William Kershner I’m very pleased to announce the release of Factor 0.101! This release is brought to you with almost 700 commits by the following individuals: Aleksan…
Factor has green threads and a long-standing feature request to be able to utilize native threads more efficiently for concurrent tasks. In the meantime, the cooperative threading model allows for asynchronous tasks which is particularly us…
After revisiting FizzBuzz yesterday to discuss a Lazy FizzBuzz using infinite lazy lists, I thought I would not return to the subject for awhile. Apparently, I was wrong! Susam Pal just wrote a really fun article about Solving Fizz Buzz wit…
I wrote about FizzBuzz many years ago. It’s a silly programming task often cited and even included on RosettaCode. The task is described as: Write a program that prints the integers from 1 to 100 (inclusive). This has been solved ad nauseum…
Lorem ipsum is a type of placeholder text that can be used in graphic design or web development. The most common form of it will often begin like this paragraph: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor…
Seth Larson wrote about a Scream Cipher: You’ve probably heard of stream ciphers, but what about a scream cipher 😱? Today I learned there are more “Latin capital letter A” Unicode characters than there are letters in the English alphabet.
Factor has an environment vocabulary for working with process environment variables on all the platforms we currently support: macOS, Windows, and Linux. Recently, I noticed that .NET 9 added support for empty environment variables. This wa…
HiDPI is a name for high resolution displays, sometimes called retina displays. A long long time ago, I added support for Retina Displays on macOS using Factor. But, they have not been well supported on either Linux or Windows platforms. So…
Neovim is a modern implementation of a vim-like editor. It started as a refactor, but “not a rewrite but a continuation and extension of Vim”. It does have some ability to load plugins built in Vimscript, but most new plugins seem to be wri…