Rui Vieira @ruivieira@mastodon.technology

New blog post: Introduction to Balanced Box-Decomposition Trees
https://ruivieira.github.io/introduction-to-balanced-box-decomposition-trees.html

Tikz/PGF is like Zawinski's law for graphics.

Some people, when confronted with a complex diagram, think "I know, I'll use Tikz." Now they have two problems.

[🙋‍♂️ status] Trying to convert some OptaPlanner score calculations from `EasyScoreCalculator` to `IncrementalScoreCalculator`

Working solo vs. working in a team

Such is the life of a hobby project...
Almost 5 years to the day: a 0.1.0 release 😁

https://github.com/ruivieira/crystal-gsl

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

— Richard P. Feynman

Booting from a vinyl record - http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/

Rust memory container cheat-sheet

Created a section in my personal site for µ-posts. Will feature 🎲 stuff, TILs and small victories against the CPU.

https://ruivieira.dev/micro/

My first #Quarkus project: a lightweight REST #Kafka producer for ad-hoc messages - https://github.com/ruivieira/kafka-ping

Off to the #Turing Institute, in London, to do a talk on open source use cases.

If you are a JS developer, this doesn't come as a surprise. Since I'm not:

['1', '7', '11'].map(parseInt) returns [1, NaN, 3]

#surprisedpikachu

Scientific Research Shouldn’t Sit behind a Paywall -- https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientific-research-shouldnt-sit-behind-a-paywall/

Sokal affair 2.0, or "This Marketing Blog Does Not Exist" (http://thismarketingblogdoesnotexist.com/) -- experiments on AI generated content.

This is the source for the "Zen of Python":

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/this.py

Rust's documentation is quite succinct:

"There are two kinds of reference:

Shared reference: &
Mutable reference: &mut

Which obey the following rules:

* A reference cannot outlive its referent
* A mutable reference cannot be aliased"

New blog post: Introduction to Balanced Box-Decomposition Trees
https://ruivieira.github.io/introduction-to-balanced-box-decomposition-trees.html

It is proven! I am ruivieira on Keybase: https://keybase.io/ruivieira/sigchain#adcf904d2b512a8f794ec09c83ae050a02b76446601b56e31342b249ace281b20f

So on the same day I find out that the source for all the #Zorks in available (https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1, in all its ZIL glory) I also find out there's a Z-Machine #Rust implementation (https://sterlingdemille.com/encrusted/).

Blog post: Monotonic Cubic Spline interpolation (with some Rust)
https://ruivieira.github.io/monotonic-cubic-spline-interpolation-with-some-rust.html #blog