As a blog platform, tumblr can be too minimalist sometimes. I really wish commenting was a feature built into it. There are ways to help yourself: Adding disqus to your tumblr is what I did, and there are a few manual steps, but it’s nothing terribly difficult.
Funny enough, more people comment on the re-blogged articles that show up as facebook notes than on tumblr itself. I guess that worksforme, too. Just need more friends 🙂
The other day I needed a linked list for the umpteenth time, and instead of going with the old (data, next) pairs, I decided I wanted something a bit more efficient, like an unrolled linked list. This also provided a good opportunity to use the CuTest unit testing framework and do some test-first development.
The result is pretty nice, testing actually found a small bug, despite the fact that I was sure can do linked lists in my sleep, and I was so pleased with the performance characteristics (better cache efficiency and far fewer allocations) that I replaced all the lists in Eressea with it.
Code sample:
quicklist *q, *ql = 0;
int i;
// insert element at index:
ql_insert(ql, 0, foo);
ql_insert(ql, 0, bar);
assert(ql_get(ql, 1)==foo);
assert(ql_length(ql)==2);
// push element at end, get indexed element:
ql_push(ql, baz);
assert(ql_get(ql, 2)==baz);
// iterate over list:
for (q=ql,i=0;q;ql_advance(&ql, &i, 1)) {
printf("%p ", ql_get(q, i));
}
Code is on github. Use as you please.
Last weekend three of us went caching in Napa valley, blissfully ignoring the fact that as good tourists we should have been drinking wine instead of scrambling up the hills and getting stuck in brambles. It was a fantastic trip: We found a dozen caches, an abandoned mental hospital, rope swings, and many many fences.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Next time, we’ll need to bring a tripod, mosquito spray and lock picks.
It was the best pizza. So good that my brain just remembered the name of the restaurant to let me google it. I need to try and make this.
My library in the US. Most of my books are in Europe, and only a few treasured ones made the trip over here.
Things haven’t improved much at all since Douglas Adams wrote his rant about little dongly things. USB was supposed to solve this, but somehow I still have a lot of chargers in the house. Each of the following charges one or more of the battery-powered mobile devices in my household and has a different plug from all the others:
Notice how nothing I own charges from a standard USB plug, and AA batteries have almost entirely disappeared. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs. To be truly mobile, I regularly load my luggage with at least half a dozen wires, plus AC converters.
In my utopian future, I don’t want a flying car or a jetpack. I want more standards.
I got one of these babies at GDC. People ask me how I like it whenever they see it, and I finally have an opinion. It’s a nice device, overall, but I would not have paid the money for it. There’s a place for it in my life, albeit a small one.
The first thing people say when they pick it up is “this is heavy”, and it is true that it’s heavier than the iPad, but I kinda like it. It feels substantial. I have the 4G version without 4G, so I’m only using it on Wireless LAN, which hasn’t been a problem, since I don’t carry it with me at all times. It’s not that kind of device.
Best usage scenarios so far:
Pros:
Cons: