Porting OpenRCT2 to the Browser using Emscripten — I’ll illustrate my approach, some of the challenges, and the results I got when porting OpenRCT2 (open source RollerCoaster Tycoon clone written in C/C++) to HTML/JavaScript using Emscripten. The sources can be found in my fork of OpenRCT2. Due to the fact that OpenRCT2 relies on an installation of the…

Using only the B combinator — I recently wondered whether the B combinator alone is capable of producing any parenthesization. My intuition was that this should be the case, but I found more or less nothing solid or concise about it, let alone an explicit construction. I’m sure this floats around somewhere, but anyways: The goal…

The Iota combinator and some alternatives — I first read about the Iota combinator years ago and was intrigued by its existence. Recently I wondered what some alternative one-point bases look like and whether Iota is the smallest such combinator. …

Real-time visuals for everyone — This is just a short story about the online Fractional Derivative Playground that I created out of curiosity and wanted to share with other curious minds. Disclaimer: I am not a mathematician, so take everything I claim or the playground shows with a grain of salt. TL;DR: Fractional derivatives are…

Uniting various programming concepts by tracking down the pattern behind the mess — Have you ever written expressions like (await t).Select(x => x?.Foo())? Fun fact: await (async. programming), Select (list processing) and ?. (null-conditional) are really the same thing. Language designers could make this expression look like t???.Foo() or (await each nullable t).Foo(). Read on to find out why and how. …