[2022-04-20] On Writing a Compiler, One Year Later

The history of Blæst, how it came to be, and reflections on the compiler that has changed my life.

So I finally got around to setting up a blog…

I’m going to be honest, I used to really make fun of wordpress, but its really easy to setup. Hopefully this is easier than my horribly janky system that used Blæst as a markdown parser that was terrible and barely … Continue reading →

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The sad state of input methods on modern Linux

こんにちは、私はコリンです。よろしくおねがいします。 So… I decided this blog will also be a place for me to post rants. So lets start. I speak 4 languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Japanese. 2 of those 4 use a non Latin character set, so … Continue reading →

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80% of the problems, caused by 20% of the bugs

If you’ve been around the internet for a long enough time, you’ve probably heard of the 80-20 principle, or Pareto Principle. For some reason, it seems like everything is linked to the proportion 80 to 20. For example, 80% of … Continue reading →

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Meta Post: I enabled comments

Just a quick post, I found out hcaptcha is available for wordpress, so I decided to install it and re-enable comments. I had them disabled because I had problems with spam way in the past, but now hopefully that shouldn’t … Continue reading →

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Back to MATE

So… Debian pushed out a broken update to GNOME, so now I’m back to using MATE. And likewise, I’m back to using xorg. Being honest, I haven’t had such a bad time switching back, I may end up staying with … Continue reading →

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Switching to Apple

So, for pretty much all my life I’ve used Windows computers, and ever since 2016 pretty much used Linux full time. I used Linux as far back as 2011, with Ubuntu 11.10 being my first distro, however 2016 was when … Continue reading →

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Just moved to Boston

If you’re wondering why there have been no new posts lately, I just moved to Boston. Still getting a lot of stuff setup here, and had to leave a lot of my development hardware behind, but hey, everything is progressing … Continue reading →

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Working on a new text editor…

So, as I’ve been teasing (for like 2 years at this point…) I am working on a text editor. Originally it was going to be based in the terminal, and using the Aquila virtual machine, then using Blæst, finally using … Continue reading →

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Micro: web design is getting out of hand…

I have to use a website called “Cognella” for a textbook at my university. It gives you one of those standard cookie prompts. Which allows you to enable or disable cookies, pretty standard right..? Well when you click “disable”, it … Continue reading →

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My review of every song from Animusic 1

I was going to originally review both Animusic 1 and Animusic 2, but I am way too busy (not to mention separated from my animusic discs, and I refuse to watch the YouTube rips), so I will have to post … Continue reading →

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Micro: I want dedicated phones to make a comeback (and you should too)

Recently I bought a Western Electric model 2500MMG from an antique store here in Boston. I had always wanted one for decoration since they are THE phone that people think of when they think of a phone, they are iconic. … Continue reading →

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Micro: Nano is an almost perfect text editor

Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself switching away from Microsoft Word and Google Docs for taking notes, and moving to the humble text file. I now take notes in Microsoft Notepad/Wordpad and my notes take up half the … Continue reading →

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Micro: Brave or Ungoogled Chromium

Recently I was thinking to myself, should I be recommending people Brave browser or Ungoogled Chromium. Myself, I use Firefox, however I acknowledge that most people probably want to stick with Chromium based browsers just because they are familiar, and … Continue reading →

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Making a parser generator doesn’t have to be hard.

I’m inspired to write this because of Russ Cox’ regular expression blogpost, which follows a similar format, although I’m not about to compare my implementation to others. Recently, I decided to create a project called CCC, or Collin’s Compiler Creator, … Continue reading →

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Micro: First!

So uh… This is the first post of the year I guess. I’m making it my goal to write a lot more this year, and probably add more interesting stuff to my website. Already I got my website working with … Continue reading →

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Micro: Just an update

Holy crap, this has been a busy year, and we aren’t even half way through it. I have been here even though I haven’t made a single post since new years (sorry). So where has the time gone? Let’s talk … Continue reading →

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Software I Use (And Recommend)

This started as a page for my website, but gradually grew in scope to the point where I think this deserves a blog post dedicated to it. I may also make a page for it on my site, but much … Continue reading →

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