Once again I find myself confronted with the peculiarities of JavaScript's type coercion (as explained in the first chapter of Eloquent JavaScript). I ran into these before and it frustrated me how JavaScript would do conversions that were heavily weighted towards strings:

"5" + 1  // Returns '51' because of string concatenation …

One of the difficulties I'm facing with this unemployment and job search is a theme that I noticed in the last job search: I really need to learn more front-end development. This unfortunately brings me squarely to face the one white whale that has eluded me: JavaScript. So I find …

I'm pulling out of the learning challenge for this month. While I've enjoyed it I think I need to focus on other things for now so I can get myself back to where I can focus on playing with old tech.

I still love the Assembly Lines Book (which I …

Day 12 and I decided to play around a little more with Mac/65. This time around I created a routine to loop through the 16 hue / 16 luminance combinations of the Atari 8-bit computers. This creates a really cheap and cheerful effect which you can sort of see on …

Day 10 was kind of a dud. I was more worried that I was losing my main OS drive on my computer, so I didn't do a learning challenge. (Everything's fine, AFAICT).

Day 11 and I decided to try something a little different:

This is a reproduction cartridge of the …