Author Archives: J. D. Bartlett

Crazy Idea: Chatting to Your Programming Language

Posted on Monday 14 May 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

What Is This? Today I’m writing about the embryo of a crazy idea I’ve had. It hasn’t yet passed the tests of usefulness and feasibility. I can’t yet clearly visualise what the implementation of the idea looks like. I’m writing … Continue reading →

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Happy Spam: I Can Only Compliment You

Posted on Monday 7 May 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

There’s a phenomenon I’ve been noticing, and I’d value your comments on the best approach to take. This is what happens: I post an article to my blog. Then I wait. Then the comment moderation queue starts to get comments … Continue reading →

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Flowchart Python

Posted on Monday 30 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction In 2006, I created Flowchart Python, a Python-based language that uses a flowchart for high-level language structure. I released it on pygame.org. A workmate was recently searching for something related to Python and flowcharts, and stumbled across my project. … Continue reading →

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Romulus, My Window Manager

Posted on Monday 23 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

About a year ago, I wrote about making your own window manager in Python, and how to extend this to use Twisted as your window manager’s main loop. Around the time I wrote those articles, I also wrote a tiling … Continue reading →

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On Factions and Fractions

Posted on Monday 9 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

Imagine a situation where a group of n people have to make a decision by simple majority. For the sake of the argument, let’s call this group of people a parliament. Now let’s consider an individual person P who is … Continue reading →

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