a curated feed of updates to the house

posts are sorted from newest to oldest.

you can keep track of which posts you’ve read by looking at the color of the links.

While writing the previous article, I stumbled upon the problem that code blocks tend to require a lot of scrolling on mobile devices. This article outlines my attempts to help alleviate that a bit.

I spent a couple days pondering on how to write an extremely simple, minimal C++ library for formatting strings (akin to printf and {fmt}.) This is the result.

I’m really happy with how compact it came out in the end!

in which I ramble about how to write good header files.

I gave this page the treatment it deserved. (which is: lots and lots of love )

With the rework of the treehouse to a more document-oriented format, it felt appropriate to narrate my story in a more novel-like way. I sincerely hope you enjoy.

A retrospect on the treehouse’s form factor, and why I’m getting rid of it. (at least partially)

a rant on how we keep locking down our software and taking away our freedom of expression in the name of security.

I wholeheartedly love this album. it makes me think, it makes me imagine. it shows me backgrounds, landscapes, people, events, feelings.

this is a set of my synaesthetic interpretations of some of the first tracks.

a joke I cracked at work, except what if I told you I was actually serious.

one of my absolutely favourite parts of Lua is how tiny, but capable it is. did you know you could implement object-oriented programming without needing any additional syntactic support?

visions of a city ever living, ever calming.

I’ve been meaning to write about those tracks for the longest time, but just didn’t get around to it. today I was giving the album another listen, and decided to write up my visions. so that I can remember, and so the world can see, too…

my most beautiful musical finding this month.

exploring the idea of aggregating pages via tags, rather than manually curating and structuring them out.

now that the holidays are over, and I’m out of block game steam, I’ll need to move onto something else. who knows what that might be?

a little note on how constrains and guard rails can make you feel more “claustrophobic.”

I had a conversation with a friend where I was saying how spacey I get sometimes, and this weird little stim of mine came up.

I wonder if anyone else has ever experienced something similar.

I tried time and time again, but can never get into Advent of Code. so here’s me overthinking why that’s the case.

I recently rebuilt the treehouse to use a virtual file system for its source and target directories.

this is an exploration of how I built my abstraction, how it works, and what I learned from it.

or, how we cannot do silly things because of herd mentality

I’m an adorable little cat boy. purrow! snuggle snuggle

a lesson in Shock Therapy & Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

aka how you will never be able to live in peace

a clever trick with C strings: did you know you can match a prefix just by chaining indexing with &&?

riki yells at cloud. an insight as to how I believe life ought to be colorful, and how just saying “I build things” is gray and empty.

a weird anomaly I noticed while listening to some breaks

I was listening to Oneohtrix Point Never’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never, and had some retrospective thoughts about the vocals in this song.

it’s also a nice opportunity to say that I’ve refreshed the music section a bit!

I like lean websites. did you know that?

I also really like lean websites that are simple in construction and deployment. did you know the treehouse is a website like that?

so I’ve decided to write up a few anecdotes and other cool stories about the treehouse’s inner workings.

also, it’s (way past) its one year anniversary! hooray!

I decided to write up some ideas on what sort of cool data analysis I could do on my ListenBrainz data set.

I haven’t done any of it yet, but I thought it’d be cool to share my ideas anyways!

I learned a ton about Lisps in the process of researching it. even though it didn’t end up having macros…

on another note, I did read a blog post about this once somewhere, but couldn’t be bothered to find it. so there you go! I made a post about this too.

it’s updatin’ time! I took some time to clean up old pages and update my about me.
over time I’ve been learning how to write content on the treehouse effectively, and the new about me reflects that.

version 1

I recently got a question from my someone telling me they don’t understand why *x does not read from the pointer x when on the left-hand side of an assignment. and that made me think, why is that the case?

bonus: dismantling Unreal Engine’s GENERATED_BODY

last night I couldn’t sleep because of type theory. in the process of trying to write down my thoughts, I ended up discovering a class of types which, to my knowledge, no language implements.

I really like Lua, did you know that? but I get kind of tired of explaining why a thousand times to people who don’t know the language, so here’s a page with my thoughts!