Author Archives: bravotic
JavaScript’s “history” methods are cool
Recently, I was writing a paper which required me to do a little historical background research. Through this I ended up on the website for Encyclopedia Britannica. As I was scrolling the page, I saw something that I hadn’t seen … Continue reading
The strange case of the Gopher “i” type
I finally feel like making another blog post! This marks the first for 2024! Crazy! If you haven’t heard of Gopher before, you aren’t alone. Gopher competed against FTP and HTTP during the race for the web, and as you … Continue reading
Micro: The Crow rewrite
I am currently rewriting the core of the Crow lisp language I made. I wrote the language originally over a year ago, I tried to create a hybrid between Lisp and JavaScript, however as time went on, I slowly realized … Continue reading
Software I Use (And Recommend)
This started as a page for my website, but gradually grew in scope to the point where I think this deserves a blog post dedicated to it. I may also make a page for it on my site, but much … Continue reading
Micro: Just an update
Holy crap, this has been a busy year, and we aren’t even half way through it. I have been here even though I haven’t made a single post since new years (sorry). So where has the time gone? Let’s talk … Continue reading
Making a parser generator doesn’t have to be hard.
I’m inspired to write this because of Russ Cox’ regular expression blogpost, which follows a similar format, although I’m not about to compare my implementation to others. Recently, I decided to create a project called CCC, or Collin’s Compiler Creator, … Continue reading
Micro: Brave or Ungoogled Chromium
Recently I was thinking to myself, should I be recommending people Brave browser or Ungoogled Chromium. Myself, I use Firefox, however I acknowledge that most people probably want to stick with Chromium based browsers just because they are familiar, and … Continue reading
Micro: Nano is an almost perfect text editor
Over the past few weeks, I’ve found myself switching away from Microsoft Word and Google Docs for taking notes, and moving to the humble text file. I now take notes in Microsoft Notepad/Wordpad and my notes take up half the … Continue reading
Micro: I want dedicated phones to make a comeback (and you should too)
Recently I bought a Western Electric model 2500MMG from an antique store here in Boston. I had always wanted one for decoration since they are THE phone that people think of when they think of a phone, they are iconic. … Continue reading