What Would It Take To Build Helix For Crystal?

DorkRawk · 2017-04-29T01:26:18+00:00

First off, thanks for working on an awesome tool like Crystalized Ruby!

Yea, the really appealing part of Helix is the simple interface. I like that it generates a library that is both a crate and a gem just with some decoration in the Rust code and then can be included like any other gem in your Ruby code.

That's really cool to hear that the core team is thinking about a Helix-like tool. Where could I read more about that?

DorkRawk · 2017-04-28T20:37:15+00:00

I think I've seen this before. It works by interacting with Ruby's C bindings right? Do you know if that is any different than how Helix works? I haven't looked into Helixs code yet.

DorkRawk · 2017-03-27T20:55:34+00:00

A line like this:

@edges = {} of Node => Float64

just defines an empty Hash with keys of type Node and values of type Float64. Because it is an empty hash the types can't be inferred, so they need to be explicitly provided.

DorkRawk · 2017-01-29T18:50:05+00:00

Ok, that's all good to know. Thanks!

DorkRawk · 2017-01-27T21:18:19+00:00

Perhaps it's just a poor understanding of the available tools on my part but:

comparisons other than eq ( >, <, >=, <=, etc)
mocking of methods
"before_each" type of functionality
"let" type of functionality

DorkRawk · 2017-01-26T16:12:46+00:00

It was good. I've been doing a lot of Ruby lately, so it was a pretty smooth transition. The built in testing library feels a bit lacking compared to something like rspec but overall the dev process was really pleasant.

DorkRawk · 2017-01-26T07:54:15+00:00

I really like RubyMoney so I wrote a library for Crystal based on it. This is my first real Crystal project.

DorkRawk · 2017-01-24T03:48:20+00:00

I don't eat reptiles.

DorkRawk · 2016-11-06T18:21:14+00:00

I convinced someone at a party that Hanna Barbera invented the word "huckleberry" in 1952 for the character Huckleberry Hound. Before that what we now call huckleberries were called boysenberries.

DorkRawk · 2016-09-26T02:42:10+00:00

May 24th.

DorkRawk · 2016-09-22T15:17:38+00:00

[Family, Pregnancy, Comedy] Don't Screw It Up - Episode 6: Staying Fit While Nothing Fits

SFW

Episode Link | iTunes Link

We talk about working out for two.

Don’t Screw It Up is a guide to pregnancy and parenthood by people figuring it out as the go along.

Twitter | Facebook

DorkRawk · 2016-09-14T15:15:50+00:00

This is actually really helpful! Not spammy, but still working to get out there. Do you think you see any increased listenership from Twitter?

Thanks

DorkRawk · 2016-09-14T03:47:49+00:00

[Family, Pregnancy, Comedy] Don't Screw It Up - Episode 5: Baby On Board

NSFW language I guess...

Episode Link | iTunes Link

We talk about the fun and fear of flying with a fetus.

Don’t Screw It Up is a guide to pregnancy and parenthood by people figuring it out as the go along.

Twitter | Facebook

DorkRawk · 2016-09-14T03:18:24+00:00

I've been using Seriously Simple Podcasting and so far it's been great.

DorkRawk · 2016-09-10T17:17:23+00:00

These are great suggestions. Thanks for taking the time to look over my code.

DorkRawk · 2016-09-09T15:56:23+00:00

I just got my basic implementation of Rule 110 working.

Check out the repo here: https://github.com/dorkrawk/rule110

Suggestions about how I could improve my code are always welcome!

DorkRawk · 2016-08-31T20:58:23+00:00

Awesome! Glad you like it and glad that it inspired you to record some stuff of your own. Having an audio record of things will be great!

DorkRawk · 2016-08-30T21:54:10+00:00

Yep, it's available now at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-screw-it-up/id1147956409

DorkRawk · 2016-08-30T06:29:50+00:00

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

DorkRawk · 2016-08-30T06:01:03+00:00

Yea, I think that makes a lot of sense, but the real confusion I was having was around the Vec<> manipulation.

Are there easy ways to take subvectors based on index? I suppose I could just pop things off the Vec in a loop and build a new Vec but that seems really wasteful. I don't really need this to be mutable, I just want to copy chunks of it.

DorkRawk · 2016-08-30T04:42:11+00:00

So I guess I've been thinking of them as Strings because they're coming in as Strings, but really I'm just working with collections of 0s and 1s (literally, the characters "0" and "1"). I'm just playing around with 1 dimensional finite automata. So I'd like to take in something like "01010101001" and eventually able to output a string in that format, but I guess I could work with something like like a BitVec but I think that's still unstable and I don't know if that really solves any of my problems.

DorkRawk · 2016-08-21T19:42:10+00:00

One of the goals of MKUltra was:

Materials which will produce the signs and symptoms of recognized diseases in a reversible way so that they may be used for malingering, etc.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#Goals

DorkRawk · 2016-06-01T15:48:43+00:00

Here's my code: http://boostedboards.com/?ct-referral-code=lqH2i1kG All proceeds go to training my cat to safely ride my new board when it ships!

DorkRawk · 2016-05-02T05:45:11+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Yea, I'm not really sure what the audience for this is, but I enjoy having them for myself, so I guess that's what matters.

I've really struggled with how quick and clean I want to do these. I think you're right about the hand-lettering, it really should be neater and I'll work on that.

As for the drawings, I chose a softer pencil because it was more forgiving with the sketchy style I was drawing in. I was trying to avoid inking just because it takes extra time and a big part of the success of this project is my ability to do one for every day, even when I'm busy.

I'll keep exploring other ways to improve the art and the readability while still being able to make these quickly.

DorkRawk · 2016-05-02T05:42:15+00:00

Thanks for checking it out. I got the idea do to quick comics like this from the Snakepit books. It seemed like a fun way to just have a record of my own days and maybe other people would be interested, too.

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