Andrew's Blog

Mars Approach (Blender muckaboutary)

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 06:10:37 +0000

I have been teaching myself Blender on-and-off. This collection of geometry nodes and terrible shaders took me all afternoon. I'll be the first to admit that this is not Weta...

Belize Trip 2022 - The Animals

Sun, 10 Apr 2022 03:30:26 +0000

We recently returned from a quick trip to Belize, a country that I did not know anything about. That was a shame, because Belize is a lovely place with lots...

Belize Trip 2022 - Caves, Ruins, Etc

Fri, 15 Apr 2022 23:06:54 +0000

Some more photos from our recent trip to Belize.Xunantunich is the site of what was once a major Mayan ceremonial and administrative center. It is maybe not the most famous...

Safety and Performance - Threadsafe Datastructures in C++

Mon, 23 May 2022 02:24:00 +0000

Multithreading is something that is often misunderstood by even senior programmers. I do a lot of interviewing and I have noticed that a large proportion of candidates have only vague...

How to Cut Down a Small Tree

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:49:55 +0000

There is always time to learn a new skill and I thought the internet could benefit from my experience in this area.In this case - a small fir sapling about...

Four Web Games to Pass the Time

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 04:52:54 +0000

This post is purely for me. Here are four browser games I like to pull up and bash about in for a while when I have nothing better to do....

On Twitter and Mastodon

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:20:03 +0000

I have been known to say that Twitter is simply the worst social media network apart from all the others. Somehow, despite a lack-luster interface, barely disguised contempt for third-party...

Social Media is Not Dying, Yet

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 04:40:32 +0000

Social Media is still very much alive. But it has reached its peak and the future does not look rosy. No one thing has dealt a fatal blow but circumstances...

Pixel Accurate Atkinson Dithering for Images in HTML

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 05:31:45 +0000

This describes the old version of this project, see Improved Web Component for Pixel-Accurate Atkinson Dithered Images for the new version plus an interactive demoI have always liked the look...

HTMLImageElement onerror Event Handler is Deprecated

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:30:40 +0000

Yep. This surprised me as well but it is all there in black and white on the MDM Article for the element.I've always just plonked a onerror() handler on...

Improved Web Component for Pixel-Accurate Atkinson Dithered Images

Wed, 18 Jan 2023 06:10:43 +0000

Late last year I released as-dithered-image, a web component that displays images using the famous Atkinson dithering algorithm. There are other web pages that demonstrate Atkinson dithering but I think...

Book : Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:59:48 +0000

Since moving to the USA I have been attempting to understand the place a little better by reading its literature. I have finally got around to reading the great edifice...

Film : Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:06:17 +0000

A D&D film seems like such a no brainer that I find it hard to believe that it took this long to actually put a decent one together. Fantasy films...

A Joke

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:10:56 +0000

I haven't blogged in a while, partly because I have been working on a secret project and partly because I haven't been inspired to write anything profound lately. However I...

C++ Pitfall : shared_future

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:57:32 +0000

A shared future is a lovely thing to contemplate. A shared_future, on the other hand, is a slippery beast.Promises and Futures are great ways of transferring ownership of objects between...