Today I managed to submit my first ever Github pull request. In developing Phoo I made some changes to the meta-words from its predecessor Quackery, and they seemed backportable to Quackery. So I forked Quackery and submitted a pull request with those changes.

In the name of trying to bootstrap …

A few months ago I stumbled upon two old 1990s-era Armdroid 1000s in the back of my engineering teacher’s storage closet. Naturally, being someone interested in robotics, I wanted to see if I could get them to operate.

Unfortunately, I didn’t know diddlysquat about how they worked. So …

I am a high school student, and so while I am at school I have to use the school-provided computers. The school district chose to give us Chromebooks. And anyone who needs to do some serious coding (like me) knows that Chromebooks are utterly useless.

Thankfully I have access to …

In developing Phoo today I was unpleasantly presented with yet another reason why I prefer Python. It was when I was working on the new Importer API for loading external modules into Phoo that I accidentally did this:

class Importer { /* stub class */ }
class FetchImporter extends Importer {
    constructor(basePath, fetchOptions = {}) {
        /* no …

After several days trying to debug the horribly bug-ridden local-echo package for xterm.js, I have had enough. It’s Ioannis’ responsibility to debug his package. I am switching over to another Javascript terminal ptogram I found, jquery.terminal by Jakub T. Jankiewicz. It has built-in readline support, and well …

It has come up often where I have a file on my parent’s Mac that I need to send to my computer. Any Apple user would probably just use Airdrop. But I use Linux!… So I created a little Python script that allows sending files between computers with the …

I have finally gotten to the point in Phoo’s development that I am ready to set up the web interface.

I chose xterm.js for the terminal interface because I intend for Phoo to be able to be run in Nodejs as well as in the browser, but I …

Several moths ago I stumbled upon Gordon Charlton’s Quackery language while paroosing Github for something. Usually I don’t pay much attention to obviously irrelevant search results, but this one seemed worth a look. I found Quackery to be a simple stack-based semi-compiled language that makes infrequent use of …

This is a test.

After I bought myself my Raspberry Pi, I soon figured out that the only version of Python available on the Debian package repositories was 3.7.2, but as of when I wrote this it is already on 3.9.7. So, I was forced to compile from source.

The …