Exploring GNU Algol 68: Formatting numbers as strings for output
As I mentioned in my introductory article to this mini-series, GNU Algol 68 is in development, and as of the date of writing this article,...
Exploring GNU Algol 68
Since early 2019, I’ve spent some time here and there refreshing my appreciation for the Algol 68 programming language, courtesy of Marcel van der Veer’s...
An Algol 68 Pretty Printer
For Marcel van der Veer, with many thanks for Algol 68 Genie If you pick up a textbook on Algol 68 from the 1970s, such...
A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 3
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the previous article in this series, we diverged from...
A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 2
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the last article in this series, we described a...
A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 1
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the last article in this series, we looked at...
Thinking about Algol 68
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 I took my first computer science course in my second...
Open Source and Music Playback
For me at least, music is an indispensable part of my day; much more so than streaming video or television. I tend to be an...
Use rclone to put your files in the cloud
There are lots of third party applications out there that purport to solve my sharing-with-the-cloud problem. I chose Rclone – an open source command-line program that can be used to copy files between computer file systems and the cloud, providing backup, restore, duplication, one-way and bi-directional synchronization and even “file streaming” – making a folder appear virtually in your physical filesystem. Not just with Google Drive, but with all sorts of cloud providers, both proprietary and open source.