Month: August 2018
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Example of a systemd service file
Here is an almost-minimal example of a systemd service file, that I use to run the Mastodon bot of my generative art playground Graft. I made a dedicated user just to run this service, and installed Graft into /home/graft/apps/graft under that username…
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Spaceship Operator
You write a class. It has a bunch of member data. At some point, you realise that you need to be able to compare objects of this type. You sigh and resign yourself to writing six operator overloads for every type of comparison you need to make. Afterwa…
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Installing Flarum on Ubuntu 18.04
I am setting up a forum for sharing levels for my game Rabbit Escape, and I have decided to try and use Flarum, because it looks really usable and responsive, has features we need like liking posts and following authors, and I think it will be reasonab…
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Rabbit Escape 0.11 out now!
The RABBOTS are coming! Get the latest version of Rabbit Escape: Android: Rabbit Escape on F-Droid (free, no ads) Android: Rabbit Escape Free on the Play Store (free, no ads) Android: Rabbit Escape on the Play Store (Pay about 60p, identical to the f…
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Migrating videos from YouTube to PeerTube inside a Docker container
I have quite a few videos hosted on YouTube that I would like to upload to my new PeerTube location, but I don’t want to install all the PeerTube dependencies on my machine, so I did it all inside a Docker image. First I built and started a Docker cont…
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How to write a programming language articles
Recent Overload journal issues contain my new articles on How to Write a Programming Language. Part 1: How to Write a Programming Language: Part 1, The Lexer Part 2: How to Write a Programming Language: Part 2, The Parser PDF of the latest issue: Overl…