Software

• penrose: A Rust library for writing your own X11 tiling window manager.
  • The design and API of the library is built around splitting the code base into IO logic that interacts with the X server and pure logic that implements the core window manager functionality.
• ad: My attempt at writing my own terminal based text editor from scratch.
  • This has turned into a bit of a playground for API design and digging into implementing lower level functionality such as a regex engine and virtual file system wire protocols.
• structex: The structural regular expression engine that powers the editing language in ad.
  • See the "Match it again Sam" post for an overview.
• simple test case: A tiny Rust proc-macro for writing parameterised tests.
  • I prefer to have as little magic and framework between my tests and the logic under test.
• sandpiles: Simple fractal generation using the Abelian sandpile model.
  • Inspired by this Numberphile video: you've got to love a good fractal.
• raymart: a simple ray tracer that supports loading .obj files
  • Started off just with following the wonderful ray tracing in one weekend before growing additional features. Taking things further is going to involve learning how to write shaders.
• dalbrack: Playing around with SDL2 to make a roguelike from scratch
  • Really this ended up being a playground for looking at procedural generation and rendering.

Photography

I'm not great at coming up with names for my photography projects, so in the interest of putting a pin in it I've settled for the following two categories:

• people
• not people

Video

• penrose from scratch: a tutorial series taking an extended look at what is involved in writing your own X11 window manager using penrose.

  • The code for the resulting window manager can be found here on GitHub.