I’ve recently become very interested in blockchain, and that, naturally led me to Ethereum and Bitcoin. From there, I got a little interested in online trading, but since I prefer not to have to think about trading, I started thinking about a trading bot. Part of the work I needed to do was write a Java API for Qaudrigacx. The API is here and is free to use under the GPL v3 terms.
A typical Minecraft world, which is made of voxels, is 128 blocks high and 2048 blocks wide and deep, for a total volume of 536,870,912 blocks. We’ll call it 500 million. So now that we have LLM’s like Claude, we can get some advice on how to build bigger worlds, which I did. I asked…
I recently had a chance to learn a little about Bioinformatics, and ended up browsing the NIH’s database of genomes here. Inside the genome data for any particular strain of a species, you’ll find various files with file extensions like “ffa”, “fna”, “ffn” and “frn”. These are FASTA files. If you’d like an example, here’s…
I’ve recently becoming interested in porting legacy PHP sites to JSPs. It seemed to me that one of the hardest parts of this problem was parsing the PHP code. Once a parse tree was created, the next step would be to emit equivalent JSP code. I went looking for an ANTL4 grammar for PHP,…
Pragmatach version 1.38 has been released Here are the notable changes: Numerous bugs that were identified by Findbugs have been resolved. Upgraded from Antlr3 to Antlr4 Upgraded to scannotation 1.03 Added url_for API to make generation of urls in templates simpler
I recently had reason to get to know OpenAPI at work, so I decided to become familiar with it. I have a HomeSeer home controller at home, which exposes a JSON API, so I decided to write a Java OpenAPI server to expose the JSON API over OpenAPI. The net result is hsOpenAPI. It exposes…
If you haven’t read this book, I highly recommend it. I discovered it in high school and finally purchased my first copy at the now-gone Duthie Books in Kitsilano. Without going into the details of the book, the author uses a simple Peano arithmetic called Typographical Number Theory (TNT) to illustrate some of his points. An example…