I was diagnosed with Ménière's disease over ten years ago. While I was initially told this was my new permanent state of being, that turned out to be almost correct and the problem went away after a few months. It did return later, with a frequency...
I've been writing a JS parser for over two years now. In this particular post I want to highlight a bit packing trick I'm applying to a core data structure of the parser as a whole: the token type. In general, the way a parser works is that it doe...
I submitted my js1k demo just now. It's called "Xcode - a CoreWars engine" and implements RedCode, a minimal instruction set to play CoreWars. CoreWars is a game from 1984 (when what you can render in a JS1k now wouldn't even render with a seven stor...
We relocated from NL to the UK about a year ago. This was a big leap into the big unknown, to say the least. Here are some takeaways from that experience. Some of it will appeal more to people from NL, other things will be pretty generic. Hope it hel...
I had a parser project with three main files that I wanted to turn into an html repl. This was initially a nodejs project and so I needed to make things work in the browser now, too. I decided to try experimentally supported es-modules which uses the...
As you may or may not have noticed I like playing Hearthstone. I'll spare you the details. One thing I've been wanting to do for a while now is to create a simulator where you can simulate certain conditions. One in particular is drawing odds. And th...
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...