I recently tweeted about a particular case that's troublesome to parsing. I don't think my tweet properly conveyed the problem with that snippet so I wanted to try and explain it in a blog post. As you may or may not know I've been working on the ...
I've decided to deprecate my "qFox" nickname. That wasn't an easy choice, mind you, just one that made the most sense. I've inadvertently created somewhat of a brand of "kuvos" leading to most people only knowing "qfox" from my website (and not under...
A year ago I got home in my temporary apartment in a city I had only visited a couple of times that was soon to be my permanent residence. Soon in the order of a few months, but still, quite permanent. The event was a small deja vu for me, which is a...
Wow how time flies. Did you know the next JS1k will be the tenth year (!!) to run this competition. That's [i]amazing[/i]. To celebrate this I figured we should go all in so for the next edition the whole thing will be themed around ten. This mean...
I've been using my Asus Zenbook for about a year and a half now. And while I'm still happy with the choice back then, I'm very disappointed with Asus. I feel they could be more pro-active in getting linux support for this particular touchpad. It's re...
Today I was trying to solve a parsing problem with regular expressions. Yes, I know. Moving on, the regular expression should be able to skip JS strings and then check for a particular character afterwards. I had that working fine but when I was tryi...
While we knew a second kid wouldn't be the same as the first, it was very difficult to imagine exactly how different it would be. And it was definitely different. But I think we handled it well. [i]This is a follow up post to my first; "[weblog 38...
My wife told me a colleague at school was having a hard time coming up with class distributions for the next year. Having worked on a finite domain solver for over a year that sounded like an interesting problem to tackle with FD. And it was. But it'...
In case you didn't get the memo; I'm joining Facebook. In fact, I'm starting tomorrow. I just arrived in London and settled into a temporary apartment. I'm super excited for tomorrow and at the same time a little anxious for the big unknown. I have N...