0dbfs.pl: Bringing a Nuke to the Loudness War
Ever heard of the Loudness War? It’s the steady ramp-up in perceived volume that has plagued popular music for the past 30+ years. Producers have steadily chipped away at dynamic range in an effort to...
View ArticleMinus Infection
I took a programming languages class in college, which used Scheme to demonstrate concepts like lexers, parsers, etc. The final project was to write our own interpreted object-oriented language. I...
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Smoke Help (for OSX)
This is a tool to help people quit smoking. My wife gave me the idea, I just wrote it. Start the program up and put it into Learn Mode. Every time you have a cigarette, hit the “SMOKE” button. This...
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GregerQuest
Before there was World of Warcraft, there was Everquest. I never played it but I had a buddy in college who did: he talked about how amazing the MMO genre was, with all its social aspects, technical...
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Teeny Tiny MIDI Controller
I’ve been working sporadically on this tiny MIDI controller. It targets the smallest PIC microcontroller available with onboard A/D converter – the PIC10F220. Currently it reads two potentiometers and...
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cfg_parse on Sourceforge
cfg_parse, that tiny config parser I wrote a few months back, has now been moved to Sourceforge. I also took the time to make some Doxygen comments and generate a manual for it. No major bugs were...
View ArticleCrazy Taxi Garmin GPS Voice
Here is a project I’d been talking about for years, but never actually pulled it off until recently. It’s a voice set for a Garmin GPS, which replaces the default “narrator” with the obnoxious...
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Wacom ArtPad II (KT-0405-R) to USB
Six or so years ago, I picked up a Wacom ArtPad II digitizer from Freecycle. It came with serial cable and power brick, but no pen. These devices aren’t like an iPad or whatever (which use a...
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pfSense on Firebox X500
Previously I had run pfSense as my firewall / router on a discarded Celeron 700mhz machine, with a lot of spare NICs in the PCI slots. Browsing around the local Goodwill and I stumbled upon this...
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Arduino Raytracer
Every programmer worth his salt has written a raytracer of some sort. It’s one of the classic “recursion exercises”, with a fair amount of math to wrap your head around. I’m not interested in writing...
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Downloading from Soundcloud
A couple years ago, downloading a song from Soundcloud used to be pretty trivial. Their server would send you the complete 128kbps MP3, and then the local embedded control would allow you to seek at...
View ArticleSecret of Evermore (Bugfixed)
Secret of Evermore is a game for the Super Nintendo released in 1995. It continues to be a somewhat controversial title in the otherwise spotless Squaresoft SNES library… but I like it, and my wife...
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Info Page – @FPAdventuresBot
@FPAdventuresBot currently posts images from the following games:Myst (1993)Extract tool: RivealImage count: 1531Data files / areas...
View ArticleWriting a WebSocket Client in Perl 5
WebSockets are the latest way to provide bi-directional data transfer for HTTP applications. They replace outdated workarounds like AJAX, repeated polling, Comet, etc. WebSockets are a special protocol...
View ArticleBBCode Parser (in PHP)
For a while now I’ve been working on a little blog engine in PHP. As part of the post rendering, I’ve settled on BBCode to do all markup and layout.This meant I would need a BBCode parser. So, I...
View ArticleModest Bricks
Modest Bricks gameplay videoModest Bricks is a Tetris clone. Originally written in 2005, it uses SDL 1.2 and the SDL_Mixer library for sound effects and music. This was one of the first “serious”...
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WebService::Discord::Webhook
My first Perl CPAN module is online! It’s a class to help interact with Webhook objects provided by the Discord chat service. https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Discord::Webhook Webhooks are...
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Back to the Future: Part III – Color Fix Patch
Title Screen – Before and After An exchange on Twitter led me into a trap that consumed a week of my time – the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive version of Back to the Future: Part III shipped with a bug...
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NaNoGenMo 2019: “Starship Trader Monthly” Magazine
Front cover of Starship Trader Monthly For NaNoGenMo 2019, I produced this catalog of starships and space vehicles. The entire text is available on the Internet Archive here:...
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Discord Minesweeper
Discord Minesweeper is a Perl script I wrote that builds on one of my previous projects, WebService::Discord::Webhook. It generates Minesweeper boards and posts them to a Discord channel. Each square...
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