The Loop

Are you the victim of a finite automation? You could be entitled to compensation!

A finite automation is a driven process that forces an outcome. An engineer is both an orchestrator and a facilitator. Facilitation always has an answer ready, orchestration has to be known. Left alone, facilitation …

I got my ⭐️...

I am not committing to the Advent of Code 2025 this year. I'm working on too many side projects checksmix, snipren, emomtimer. In fact I don't even have time to write this blog. On the other hand, I used some holiday downtime to work through Day 1 …

Blazing Fast MMIX Emulator

I like learning computer architectures by running code. MIX is good fun, but it’s dated and awkward for writing anything beyond small examples. MMIX, on the other hand, is a complete computer architecture—much closer to machines that were genuinely pleasant to program, like MIPS …

I rename a lot of files. So do you.

I respect the Unix way — mv file1 file2 — but in practice, file1 and file2 are usually the same name failing by one to three characters. Re-typing 97% of a filename feels ceremonial rather than intentional, especially when what I want is …

How did i not know that you can make a c-style for loop in bash

$ for (( i=0; i<5; i++ ))
  do
      echo $i
  done

Introducing Parsm: A Universal Structured Text Parser

When scientists and engineers created the UNIX system, they built utilities that each performed a specific task exceptionally well. Commands such as grep, awk, and sed have become the atoms of text and data processing workflows. However, today's computing landscape is dominated by …