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Dave Gauer

Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.

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i386 Assembly Language trick for storing data in .text

ratfactor · 2y

Made a fun little demo tonight while working on Meow5 and wanted to share...

pumpkin.sh - a Halloween pumpkin for your terminal

ratfactor · 2y

Since I've been neck-deep in ANSI escape sequences while working on my ELF decoder, I thought I'd make this fun little pumpkin. Happy Halloween, for those who celebrate!

Making the Zig standard library readable - another go!

ratfactor · 2y

Hi everybody! Another wacky night project I just had to make once the idea took hold. This is my _third_ shot (this time in Ruby) at making the Zig standard library easy to...

ratfactor · 2y

Here's something I've experienced many times in the past, but most notably this week...the power of shell scripts to contain knowledge!

Literate Programming

ratfactor · 2y

Followup! My fresh thoughts (and FEELINGS) while I'm still all enthused about this Literate Programming experience...

RubyLit - This README is a program!

ratfactor · 2y

Here's a fun one: I got this wild hare to make a simple version of Knuth's Literate Programming in Ruby. How small could it be? Turns out 35 lines (not golfed) gives you quite a...

Retro-Simplicity

ratfactor · 2y

The best time for simple, retro-style computing is NOW. Revel in your time. Do not give in to the lure of Big Complexity...

ratfactor · 2y

GitHub = history. RepoRat generates static mini-sites for Git repos. 10 hours of work spread over 7 days. About 300 lines of Ruby...

Ziglings has moved to Codeberg! (and ziglings.org)

ratfactor · 2y

Heck yeah we're doing this! So Ziglings is now on Codeberg in its own "Ziglings" organization. The ziglings.org domain takes you directly there. What's really cool is that you...

** RSS Club ** | Reply Guys and the Orange Site

ratfactor · 2y

RSS Club* Exclusive follow-up and tell-all about the last post. Contains: Three positive personal outcomes reply-guys hate...

ratfactor · 2y

I've been deliberating it for a month. I know I'll be explaining this for a long time to come, so I might as well make a page I can point to...

ratfactor · 2y

I tried an experiment in intentional relaxation. Maybe it's kinda obvious in retrospect, but I think it's already changed my life. I'll definitely be doing this again in the...

ratfactor · 2y

I've almost certainly forgotten some of my favorite utilities, but at least I've got most of them here. I recently discovered Modern CSV and Scribus and I didn't want to forget...

*DONE!* Forth: The programming language that writes itself: The Web Page

ratfactor · 2y

I started to write the spoken content for my little Forth talk and it just sort of...kept growing. I'm proud to announce the completion of this massive article about the past,...

MC2023 Chapter 5: Programming the Pico PIO

ratfactor · 2y

I have succeeded at plowing through a month's worth of failure to arrive at the next stop on my microcontroller adventures...