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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.
Latest Posts
Another thing emerges from the ongoing December Adventure 2023: a super simple Ruby utility for making super tiny SVG line art!
Just a quick little "discovery" during the aforementioned and ongoing December Adventure 2023 that I thought should have its own page...
I just finished this epic drawing and I want you to look at it!
A low-key adventure! A little bit of progress each day on a project. There won't be an entry each day on this RSS feed. But I'm sure I'll post an update when it's done. So feel free to watch or not or somehow both.
Over a year later, it's done! Assembly Nights Season 2 has concluded and I proudly present my "thought experiment taken too far"...
Tools I use to build and maintain this website...
Made a fun little demo tonight while working on Meow5 and wanted to share...
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!
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 read. This feed item links to the repo, where you can find a...
Here's something I've experienced many times in the past, but most notably this week...the power of shell scripts to contain knowledge!
Followup! My fresh thoughts (and FEELINGS) while I'm still all enthused about this Literate Programming experience...
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 bit. YES, it includes out-of-order source, so it's a *real*...
The best time for simple, retro-style computing is NOW. Revel in your time. Do not give in to the lure of Big Complexity...
GitHub = history. RepoRat generates static mini-sites for Git repos. 10 hours of work spread over 7 days. About 300 lines of Ruby...
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 can even *clone the repo* from the ziglings.org domain....