A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
(“Now” is in quotes as it depends on when I last remembered to update this page.) Software I’ve developed a prototype of multiplexing for servo/ipc-channel as a possible solution to the problem of it exhausting available file descriptors. There are some missing features I need to add before it is ready to use in Servo. Also, I need to develop some integration tests matching the main Servo use cases of ipc-channel. Reading I#m reading “Alien Clay” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. See books for...| underlap
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
My favourite kind of code is the sort that will “converge” to something useful, not that will necessarily be perfect or bug free from the start. But what do I mean by “converge”? Mathematical convergence The mathematical notion of convergence is where a series of terms approaches a limit and the further you go along the series, the closer the terms get to the limit. The distance from the limit can “jump around”, but only by decreasingly small amounts. My favourite analysis textboo...| underlap
I’m not in the habit of writing week notes, but given that I’ve been fiddling around with various things, I thought I’d try out the format. Last week the weather in the UK was glorious, so my wife and I went on various walks and day trips and even went for a swim/float in the sea. I also replaced the broken SSD on my Linux desktop and installed arch again. But what have I been up to this week? Running I was getting back into running a few weeks ago and then mildly strained my Achilles. ...| underlap
I don’t want AI bots scraping my website. Apart from the licensing issue if the scraped content is used inappropriately[1], I’m very concerned about the environmental impact of AI in terms of the power and water consumption of data centres as well as electronic waste. The proliforation of AI bots is probably a temporary phenomenon since the AI bubble – hype and over-investment coupled with limited results – is likely to pop within a few years. But meanwhile, website owners like myself...| underlap
Today I noticed that some of the maths in a draft post (which happened to be in LaTeX) rendered correctly in preview. When I introduced a syntax error in the maths, preview failed with “KaTeX parse error”. This led me to the KaTeX project and the markdown-it-katex plugin. With a bit of debugging help (from vrugtehagel on the eleventy discord instance), it turned out I needed to do a couple of things to get the plugin working in eleventy: Override the dependency from markdown-it-katex to k...| underlap
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org
A blog on software development and other stuff| underlap.org