About the Cobras
I'm a C, C++, Objective C and PHP programmer. I develop various things for PCs, Macs and the iOS platforms. On and off I'm developing an iPhone game which I expect I shall never finish. I feature progress reports on how far I am from completing it in this blog along with me rattling on about learning French and any other junk I need to get off my chest. I shouldn't really need to say it in this day and age, but obviously, the opinions here are mine and not those of anyone who pays me... unless I've been bribed, in which case, all bets are off. There's more here.-
Recent posts
Categories
Recent Comments
Tag cloud
18:14 party train Apple bad planning BBQ bees book braiiiiins C++ castle-nine-popes cobra art cobra family debugging education endless task French germs giraffe iPhone irregular pigeon khaaaaaaaaaan! long fish long post is long map editor Michel Thomas passwords pointless observation programming standards rants raspberry pi schedules scrolling security slow progress snake space space snake specifications Spongebob Squarepants sprummer stupid mistakes the future train twitter UI user interfaceMeta
Category Archives: Cool stuff
This nudist play can wreck a nice beach
“Any artificial intelligence smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.”1 – Ian McDonald (2006) River of Gods Here’s a picture illustrating a simple problem that humans find utterly trivial to solve but … Continue reading
Posted in Cool stuff, They're coming to get us
Tagged AI, cow, creatures, farm, machine learning, the future
Comments Off on This nudist play can wreck a nice beach
Tea, Earl Grey, Hot
“What can be palpably more absurd and ridiculous than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?” – member of the public, early 19th century England In 1823, Robert Stephenson and Company was formed with the … Continue reading
Posted in Cool stuff
Tagged 18:14 party train, 3d printer, bad predictions, cobra art, germs, the future, train
9 Comments
‘Tis the season to eat chocolate: The Universal Cake Recipe
Easter is pretty much here which means spring has sprung and nature is giving birth to a wonderful display of green. As we all know from Wikipedia, Easter is when we celebrate an event that occurred two millennia ago when … Continue reading
Posted in Cool stuff
Tagged cake, cake recipe, chocolate, easter, education, Fabergé eggs
9 Comments
From little acorns
Juuso, one of the chaps whose blog I really enjoy reading, says that he likes to describe emergent behaviour as “1 + 1 = 3”. I would describe that as a syntax error. Emergent behaviour isn’t about taking an obviously … Continue reading
Posted in Cool stuff, Software development
Tagged cobra art, development, elite, emergence, emergent behaviour, procedural generation, virtual world
2 Comments
Space: The closed frontier
This makes me happy: But this makes me very sad indeed: If you’d asked me as a teenager, I’d have told you that we’d be on Mars by 2010. Why? Because we can. Because it’s there. Because we’re explorers. And … Continue reading
Wow… just wow
If you’re remotely into software development, you’ll have probably already have heard of this already. If you have not, you need to check it out right bloody now and bask in something that’s going to blow your socks off even … Continue reading
Posted in Cool stuff
Tagged braiiiiins, goodbye Flash!, Javascript, the future unfolding
Comments Off on Wow… just wow