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Brian writes about computing
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Let's Build a Translation App
June 12, 2023
using an AI language model and 20 lines of code
Advent of Code 2022
Jan 9, 2023
A Tour of the Raku Programming Language
Get Started with Raku Terminal-UI
Mar 9, 2021
first things first
Writing tmeta in Raku
Aug 20, 2020
A Better Terminal Automator
xclock
January 2, 2020
the beauty of xclock
The Earth from Space
Feb 28, 2019
on your desktop
Metaterm
Jan 31, 2019
Fun with tmux
Leap Seconds
Dec 31, 2018
Is there a leap second in January, 2019? (spoiler: no)
Whitespace Characters and Coding
Nov 24, 2018
On the presence or absence of whitespace in code.
markatu
Oct 11, 2018
Inventing a lightweight markup language.
tailgrep
September 4, 2018
Following a file, grepping for lines, watching a spinner.
Ping Pong in Perl 6
August 2, 2018
Message passing between threads using channels is a simple way to manage concurrency.