Pintograph (revisited) - pretty patterns with mathematics

Geometric patterns are fun. In this post, I’m going to showcase a particular method of generating such patterns, named pintograph as coined by the daughter of Fran McConville. It is, at its simplest, two rods connected at one end to draw a line with a pen, and other ends connected to rotating circles. However, its mathematical definition is a bit more involved, yet required for simulating it accurately on a computer…


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Boggling with Haskell : how to achieve victory over word puzzles

Word grid puzzles are tricky. If only there was a way to solve them quickly… I know! Let’s do it with Haskell!


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Othello AI in Haskell

Devising game AIs can be fun and educational for programmers of all skill levels. What if.. we did it in Haskell this time? 👉👈


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Why I switched to Jekyll

As those who have followed my programming activities for a longer bit, they know I’ve used a custom site generator since 2016 - since I bought the domain and started my website. It has had many evolutionary steps over the years.

However, 6 years later, my mind had changed. From now on, I’ll be using a pre-made, maintained static site generator. But why?


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Mapping Minecraft with Go (a.k.a OrienteerMap)

It has been, for a long while, on my bucket list to implement a program that renders from some sort of game/map data. And over the summer 2021, I had the time and opportunity to implement just that. Meet OrienteerMap, as I call it.


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