https://pvdz.ee/notes Short sticky notes for myself or whatever Copyright 2017, Peter van der Zee Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:55:47 -0800 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:55:47 -0800 Tech My own PHP abomination 60 https://pvdz.ee/notes/185 No comment. Just wanted to log it somewhere. It's my silly implementation for a Trie in Rust. Just so I can have a laugh at myself in ten years ;)<br /><br />This Trie assumes to be accepting strings of numbers... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/185 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:59:59 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/184 Here's the way to get the old <code>require</code> back in nodejs when you are in ESM mode.<br /><br />At some point later you can use <code>import.meta.resolve</code> to resolve paths and what not but for no... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/184 Wed, 07 Oct 2020 21:11:32 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/183 Dependency free post in nodejs. Is that a thing? Absolutely!<br /><br />Posting it here in case, like me, you got annoyed with all the express axiom blabla libraries for this.<br /><br /><div class="code-header">Code:</div><code class="quote">// If you're posting to... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/183 Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:37:08 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/182 Linux has some good and some bad tools. Examples of good tools are xrandr and ffmpeg. You can use xrandr to configure screens in a very generic yet powerful manor.<br /><br />I recently bought a new screen an... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/182 Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:01:27 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/181 If you ever want to figure out where a value ends up being used, this may come in handy :)<br /><br /><div class="code-header">Code:</div><code class="quote">new Proxy({}, {<br /> getPrototypeOf: () => {throw new Error('poisoned getPrototypeOf')},<br /> setPrototy... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/181 Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:26:29 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/180 Ignore. This is kind of like a todo/wish list. Or maybe never.<br /><br /><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Rewriting-Systems-Cambridge-Theoretical-Computer/dp/0521391156/' target='_blank' class='nurl'>Term Rewriting Systems</a><br /><strike><a href='https://... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/180 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:35:40 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/179 A log of decks that I built or draft decks I ended up with. Okay maybe not so long depending on how often I'll do a magic draft. Which, it turns out, may not be that often after all. I'm just listing ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/179 Sat, 10 Dec 2016 15:26:48 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/178 An ever growing list of random startup ideas in no particular order...<br /><br /><hr><br /><br />- CCG with full online/offline integration <br /><br />Collectible card game (like mtg) with a good client that recognizes car... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/178 Wed, 28 Sep 2016 09:06:18 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/177 This is continued from <a href='http://qfox.nl/notes/176' target='_blank' class='nurl'>http://qfox.nl/notes/176</a>.<br /><br />State of affairs:<br /><br />Trying to properly setup xubuntu on a Zenbook UX501VW-FJ024T (2016 model). The zenbook has an... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/177 Fri, 02 Sep 2016 12:07:54 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/176 This is a like a log of my travels trying to get stuff to work on a 2016 model Asus Zenbook (UX501VW-FJ024T) on Xubuntu 15.10. At the time of writing, 16.04 and 16.04.1 are a no-go, as it doesn't even... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/176 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:35:05 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/175 For my own reference, these are some of the steps to do after installing a fresh xubuntu. ymmv, wfm.<br /><br />Install git (<code>apt-get install git</code>) before updating the bashrc because I use git as p... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/175 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 23:52:58 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/174 This is for trying to get 16.04 on a fresh Asus Zenbook 2016 (in particular, this is a UX501VW-FJ024T).<br /><br />Download the image for 15.10 because 16.04 and 16.04.1 crash shortly after booting. You can p... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/174 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:34:49 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/173 Well, sort of from cli.<br /><br />GraphViz is a nice tool for this. You can easily automatically generate the connections and produce a nice graph. Lots of options, basics are simple enough. Capable of outpu... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/173 Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:26:01 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/172 Some notes for a game. As you were :)<br /><br />Header will tell you number of sentences dot word count (lines.words) of first sentence for easy filtering.<br /><br />The are things that occur when you arrive at a n... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/172 Fri, 20 May 2016 12:30:08 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/171 After long debating I got me the Parrent Zik 3 headphones. I was looking for a wireless set of headphones with good battery and good sound quality. I kept landing on the zik3 or the momentum2. I check... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/171 Wed, 11 May 2016 23:24:01 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/170 The diff-highlight can be a nicer way to review diffs. It tries to highlight changes in a line rather than just display the before/afters. Here's a simple way to setup a simple alias so you can do <co... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/170 Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:20:09 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/169 Simple (super dumb, non-generic) script to rename files in a given relative dir.<br /><br />Use at your own risk. It's only lazily doing something I quickly need.<br /><br /><div class="code-header">Code:</div><code class="quote">var fs = require('fs');<br /><br />var dir =... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/169 Sun, 19 Jul 2015 22:49:12 -0700 https://pvdz.ee/notes/168 The Bresenham-based supercover line algorithm is a so called "super cover" algorithm. You take a grid of tiles and a line and it will tell you exactly which tiles the line touches. This is what I was ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/168 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:56:23 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/167 Copy pasty<br /><br /><div class="code-header">Code:</div><code class="quote">function intersects(ax, ay, aax, aay, bx, by, bbx, bby){<br /> var sax = aax - ax;<br /> var say = aay - ay;<br /> var sbx = bbx - bx;<br /> var sby = bby - by;<br /><br /> var s = (-say * (ax - bx) ... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/167 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 16:44:46 -0800 https://pvdz.ee/notes/166 This is a simple raycasting thingie. Just a proof of concept. Don't think too much of it because it still needs some refinement. The rest of this header is just filler because I'm just too busy to pro... Peter@van.der.Zee Tech https://pvdz.ee/notes/166 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:34:36 -0800