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July 25, 2019

programming-nu on github.io

In July I moved the programming.nu website to programming-nu.github.io, a GitHub page in the programming-nu organization, where Nu and related projects now reside.

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February 10, 2019

WeeKit: A Rust toolkit built on OpenVG

WeeKit is a tiny toolkit that I wrote for writing interactive applications in Rust. Initially built to support Raspberry Pi and macOS, WeeKit wraps the OpenVG library in a Rust interface, adds higher-level drawing functions on that OpenVG base, and uses platform-specific C libraries and system calls to support interactive touch-, mouse-, and keyboard- based applications.

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December 1, 2017

gott: a little terminal-based editor written in Go

gott is a little text editor that I wrote as a hobby project. It was inspired by antirez's kilo and Jeremy Ruten's Build Your Own Text Editor. gott means "good" in Swedish, perhaps a presumptuous thing to call a little console-based text editor.

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August 9, 2013

Battle Bats

In 2013, my son Michael (then a music student at UCLA) wrote this fun single-screen multiplayer breakout game for a competition sponsored by Kii. I didn't write any of the app but was the person behind the camera in Michael's submission video (below).

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December 1, 2012

The Friend Request

In the fall of 2012, I wrote and produced a Christmas play about social media that was performed at Union Presbyterian Church in Los Altos. Thanks to Julie Conde for directing!

After the show, Norma at Los Altos Politico published this kind and detailed review.

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April 20, 2010

iPad Slot Machine

At the Spring 2010 iPad Dev Camp, I organized a team that built a multi-screen slot machine on a collection of networked iPads. It was scary and fun, and the judges gave our team the "Coolest App" award.

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