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Stumbled across this site by accident? I've moved to a new home:

http://thenoviceoof.com/

It includes all my blogger posts: one day, I'll delete this blog. Until then, go there.

web dev

I miss git.
Specifically, I miss the commits at the end of the day, that sort of self-documentation and wrapping up the day, instead of forgetting about the struggles that have come before. Blah.

Templates

How much do templates matter, in the grand scheme of things?

Currently, the vision for ezlo templates is big. Huge, maybe. And I've just realized that it's going to take a while to implement the sort of quasi-social aggregation system that I want to help advanced latex users to help the beginner latex users. I can only ask: does anyone care if people vote on various templates? Would anyone use more than a handful of templates? Sure, people could hack them to fill the need for, say, auto-complete and keyboard shortcuts, but would my time be better spent on those features?

Need to sleep on this. I haven't allocated myself much time on ezlo, though. Hmm.

Ezlo Images

Images work pretty well; they're styled hideously, but insertion with png's works. I probably should use the file handling utils that ruby comes with, but that's for later...

Voronoi, and Ezlo

So I'm kind of ish done with voronoi; at any rate, I'm doing a simulation with a huge number of points, so whether or not it'll come out any good is still to be seen. I'm leaving a problem with gen_verts(), though, which is bothersome: if I ever get bored, I'll go fix that.

I've spent a bit getting back into hacking on ezlo, and I've discovered that this render :update malarky is a bit more complicated than everyone makes it out to be. I have to take a look into rjs, though, which might fix my current conundrum of getting the image handling interface to behave nicely.

Algorithms

I swear, writing algorithms suck, and I don't want to see one for a while.

Yeah, take that, you sucky algorithms.

Ignite

Well, I'm hooked on ignite.