Posted on June 4, 2022
Mandlebrot Generator
I was watching James Sharman’s video about benchmarking his hombrew CPU recently. In that video he generates a mandlebrot set as a benchmark. I realized I’d never written an implementation of mandlebrot, so thought it might be fun…. Read More
Posted on June 3, 2021
HD44780 Character Generator
There’s a few generators for LCD characters out there for the classic HD44780 controller. However none of them give you a realistic preview, so it’s hard to get a sense of how good/bad they look. I created a… Read More
Posted on October 15, 2016
Lissajous curve
I saw a reddit post earlier about lissajous curves so I threw together a simple thing to draw one using canvas. You can play with the parameters to get different curves.
Posted on June 6, 2011
Differences between Firefox and Chrome Extensions
This entry was written during my time at IBM for a Firefox extension I had developed related to bookmarks I’ve been using Google Chrome more often lately. I still prefer Firefox in a lot of ways, but you… Read More
Posted on June 4, 2007
Much ado about AMC and Jeep intake manifolds
So, I never intended for this blog to contain any useful information about anything in particular, but as time goes on my repository of knowledge about various things has started to include some of what others may actually… Read More
Posted on March 23, 2007
Random Word Picker
I recently noticed that one of my favorite websites, the random english word picker is down. I think it’s been down for a while, in fact. In an attempt to fill in the void opened by this missing… Read More
Posted on March 10, 2005
Station Wagon Bandwidth
Up to 50x faster than covered wagon bandwidth! <br /><a href="http://old.alexrock.com/serendipity/archives/19-Station-Wagon-Bandwidth.html#extended">Continue reading "Station Wagon Bandwidth"</a>
Posted on January 27, 2005
Frozen Pudding
Oh, oh: you see, the kids, they listen to the rap music whichgives them the brain damage. With their hippin’, and the hoppin’, and the bippin’, and the boppin’, so they don’t know what the jazz…is all about!… Read More
Posted on January 11, 2005
Frozen Jello
How to ruin food in one easy step! First off, let me apologize for whatever this little thing I do here becomes today. I’m using this as a distraction from an english paper I should be writing that… Read More