Playing With AdmonitionsI’ve added the possibility of generating Asciidoctor-style admonitions to this website, not only in the final HTML generated for this website, but also in the PDF and EPUB outputs, and you might have seen them in action in previous posts.
NeXTClockSo here is a new project on GitLab called NeXTClock: a small browser-based recreation of a NeXTSTEP-style clock applet from the 1990s. This modern version renders a 64-unit clock face into a square <canvas> using JavaScript and requestAnimationFrame(), with optional scaling from 64 to 500 pixels, because, well, Java Applets aren’t really a thing anymore.
Goodbye, CursorRegular readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite a happy user of Cursor for the past year, but the recent news of its mother company being purchased by SpaceX has made me reconsider my decision, and cancel my current subscription altogether.
Conway in HaskellAt this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway project and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM, Scala, and Bash, and this year with Haskell.
Vibe Coding with CursorI work at a company that is truly invested into AI and LLMs, to the point that we can internally use (following some guidelines) quite a few tools in our day-to-day work: in particular, we have Gemini, Google NotebookLM, and Cursor available to all employees.
Conway in NASMAnd here we go again with vibe coding: this time with Claude, I translated the Turbo Pascal version of Conway into Netwide Assembler or NASM for Linux 64-bit.
Exploring Hugo TagsA few months ago I vibe coded with ChatGPT to create, in about 15 minutes, a small Rust application that reads all the tags of a Hugo site, and prints the list thereof.
Conway in ScalaAnother week, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in Scala, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.
Translating the Formula for Primes to Rust With AIAfter creating the C++ version of C. P. Willans’ formula for primes last week, I asked myself what other language is usually pitted as the fastest ever? And the answer, of course, is Rust.
Translating the Formula for Primes to C++ with AISome of you might remember an article I published more or less a year ago, called “Mathematical Curiosities”. In that article I showed an indeed curious formula: the 1964 “Formula for Primes” by C. P. Willans.
Conway in BashI’ve added a new version to my venerable Polyglot Conway project, this time as a good old Bash script, a version bootstrapped with the help of ChatGPT.
Conway in C89Another year, another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time for C89, also known as “ANSI C”, targeting quite a few compilers of the early 1990s, and some others from our more recent times.
Polyglot ConwayMy personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.