Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Overkill III: Permutations of Overkill (Perl6) Long-time readers remember my previous code with the ...

Overkill III: Permutations of Overkill (Perl6)
Long-time readers remember my previous code with the Magic Box . In short, given the numbers [ 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 ] , arrange them in a 3x3 square such that every row, column and diagonal adds up to 21. My first pass, on a very old computer, had th...

Monday, August 29, 2016

Perl and cpanm on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10: Who do I report this to? I promised a longer post on...

Perl and cpanm on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10: Who do I report this to?
I promised a longer post on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 , explaining why I use it, when I don't and why I even use Windows 10, but that isn't today. Today is me trying to figure out who to report a bug to, and how to effectively report it. The system (call...

Friday, August 19, 2016

On Not YET Contributing to an Open Source Project Not the module in question.  I had an idea, and the...

On Not YET Contributing to an Open Source Project
Not the module in question.  I had an idea, and the shortest path between here and a working implementation is through CPAN, so I found a module and tried to install it. No go. Failed tests. So I find the GitHub repo and make an issue. That doesn't get me a...

Friday, August 12, 2016

A Little Fun with OpenCV I have a webcam that I have set to take pictures at work. Is this a long-term...

A Little Fun with OpenCV
I have a webcam that I have set to take pictures at work. Is this a long-term art project? Is it a classic Twitter over-share? An example of Quantified Self gone horribly, horribly wrong? I honestly don't know. I do know that it's brought me into interestin...

Looks very interesting, but wondering if there's anywhere in my life where this is useful.

Looks very interesting, but wondering if there's anywhere in my life where this is useful.