written by
Neh Thalggu
on 2025-11-29
I know this is probably more me than you, dear reader. But I just don't like working in two dimensions. Laying out things like web-page designs or UI designs is a faff. If I use the mouse it's just OK. But a bit laborious. On the other hand, declarative HTML-like and templating languages SHOULD b...
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written by
Neh-Thalggu
on 2025-11-25
I am, as I may have mentioned, a bit obsessed with graph editors. DAGs and other graphs are hugely important. And we want to tell the computers about them all the time. However they don't map conveniently on to text. And this infuriates me because I like text. A lot. I think text is the greatest ...
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written by
Neh-Thalggu
on 2025-10-16
I'm still resonating from the awesome Alpaca Festival I attended a few weeks ago. There were many stimulating ideas there. Not least another presentation by Rocco Lorenzo Modugno and his colleagues. Building on an earlier tak on the tiling pattern notation of Dominique Douat which uses the letter...
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written by
Neh-Thalggu
on 2025-10-15
Directed Acyclic Graphs or DAGs are an important data-structure for representing any kind of processing pipeline. They turn up in audio applications, from modular synthesisers to Pure Data patches. (As long as there are no feedback loops.) They are used in Machine Learning pipelines. In continuou...
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written by
Neh-Thalggu
on 2025-08-12
I admit, I like jQuery. Not jQuery as a full web UI framework, but the notion of a simple, "fluent" interface for accessing something complicated like the DOM, that jQuery introduced me to. Every now and then I need to do something with another complicated thing and a light-bulb goes off in my he...
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