Chris J Cowan

I used to semi-keep a blog on Tumblr. I decided to start hosting my own site again and delete my Tumblr account. So here’s some links I posted that still interest me.

StarNation Movie looks like an interesting film about competitive StarCraft 2 gamers.

Hall of API Shame: Boolean Trap - On how it is a design error to have Boolean parameters to functions/methods.

Michael Abrash’s classic “Graphics Programming Black Book” is free online.

(How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python))

Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? A detailed (and geeky) argument that Lord of the Rings does indeed have a rather large plot hole.

A Turing Machine - An interesting machine that mimics a Turing machine.

The Mourners - My brother tipped me off to this neat virtual gallery of sculptures.

Film Reviews / Analysis by Rob Ager - I found Ager’s reviews while searching for The Big Lebowski reviews. I particularly liked his analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial - Tutorial for Mercurial written by Joel Spolsky.