chilliant
The personal blog of Ian Taylor
Sunday, 9 February 2020
egg Try Operator
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I had a bit of an epiphany earlier in the year. Not one of "Archimedean" proportions (no bathwater was at risk), but I seem to rem...
Sunday, 19 January 2020
Escapeless, Restartable, Binary Encoding
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Imagine you are broadcasting a message over the air by Morse code. The message (or plain text) is made up of words of capital letters separa...
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
An Alphabet for the Digital Age
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Remember those glossy posters at school to help you learn the alphabet? I'm assuming they still use them. They probably need updating fr...
Proofreader T-Shirt
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Founder Member of the the National Society of Proofreaders
Thursday, 31 January 2019
egg Syntax 3
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As promised, I've created a guide to the egg programming language based around its syntax. Even though it doesn't go into the ni...
Friday, 11 January 2019
A Crowded Chronology of Cities
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For a change of pace, I've been working on a web page to illustrate the most populous urban areas throughout history: A Crowded Chronol...
Sunday, 4 November 2018
RGB/HSV in HLSL 8
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Andrew (K-Be) emailed me this week with a problem he found in my HLSL code for HCL-to-RGB conversion. Here's the original code: fl...
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