Bede Kelly

Warning: this is an unfiltered stream of thoughts on a hypothetical text game, and isn't by any means good or interesting writing. Proceed with caution. The program, at its most basic level, does

I've been wanting to try out some JS for a while now, as it's an incredibly popular language that I've barely touched except for data-binding stuff with Angular. I decided I'd give Canvas

Right now, str.format is probably the best way to accomplish most string formatting in Python. I'm not going to touch on the format spec mini-language, because I've never learned it and frankly

In order to try out Python 3.6's new format strings -- no, really -- I wanted to build myself an alpha version of CPython. The canonical source is on a Mercurial repository;

In writing some test queries for my Twitter-ish SQLite database, I came across the idea of nested SQL statements. I noticed a limitation pretty early on, where I wanted to save the result

I've been scared of SQL (and relational databases in general) for a pretty long time. The syntax has always felt clunky to me, and I feel like I'm using technology from 25 years

I've been preparing for an intermediate Python talk I'm hoping to give in a few months' time, and along the way I've been discovering some new mini-design-patterns that look like they might come

After seeing LinusTechTips' video on watercooling the iPhone 6s, I decided to do some experimentation of my own! I've got a Sony Xperia Z5, whose processor is the infamous Snapdragon 810. This processor

At the end of my last post I mentioned that although the root of my Xperia Z5 had gone pretty well, it (or possibly my unmentioned, failed attempt at installing the Xposed Framework)

Make sure you don't have ANY data you want to keep on your phone before following these or any other instructions. Bear in mind that although the phone was rooted successfully, the default

Just a quick hack/workaround this time: I set up a new Amazon EC2 instance last night, and decided to upgrade it from the default Ubuntu 14.04 to the latest version 15.

It seems like I'm overengineering the backend somewhat - surely I should just jump in and write usage code instead of worrying about exactly how events are going to be implemented? After the

I quickly sketched out an idea of how the interrupt_before method should work, and made some minor modifications to make the should_fire computation a bit more concise and readable: I also

Last post, I put forward the hand-wavey idea that contrary to typical object-oriented practice, Python would allow you to do something very like method inheritance. I wanted to see how easily my idea

I've tried a few times to make a framework for Interactive Fiction (more specifically, text-based natural-language-controlled games). I've had some success, but I feel like each time, I've jumped into coding too quickly

Hal is an SMS-based information engine I designed and built at the AstonHack hackathon earlier this month. Since then, I've added a few extra features, done some major code-cleanup, and made the source

The best-known automaton is probably Conway's Game of Life. It's a simple system which describes a game-board of cells: each cell can either be alive or dead. For each generation following the first,

It's been pointed out to me that very few programmers are willing to share advice about their setups, so I thought it might be a good idea to run through my regular environment