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December Adventure Log 2025

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +1100

This year, for the first time, I’m going to join in with December Adventure! What will I write? I don’t know yet!

Nanochat, the nano-est chat

Sun, 05 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +1100

…or how I built a chat client in under a day, and how you can too!

Feb 2025 Update

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:00:00 +1000

About time I wrote about what I’ve been doing.

Building a Compiler Backend (Part 6: macOS)

Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +1000

The story of how I became a compiler developer, I guess. In this final part, I’ll look at what it takes to target Apple’s desktop operating system.

Advent of Code 2024 / December Adventure

Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:00:00 +1100

What I’m doing this December.

Building a Compiler Backend (Part 5: Cores)

Sat, 30 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +1000

The story of how I became a compiler developer, I guess. Here I write the core files that are necessary for any real Callisto programs.

Building a Compiler Backend (Part 4: ARM)

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +1000

The story of how I became a compiler developer, I guess. It’s time to add a backend for a new CPU – by copying an existing one.

Building a Compiler Backend (Part 3: Standard Library)

Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +1000

The story of how I became a compiler developer, I guess. As one final stop before I start explaining the new backend features, I’ll take a look at the Callisto standard library.

Building a Compiler Backend (Part 2: Compiler)

Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +1000

The story of how I became a compiler developer, I guess. This time, I’m digging into how the Callisto compiler works in general, as background for what I worked on next.

#48in24 – Four Interesting Solutions

Sat, 07 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +1000

I’m finally getting back to doing some #48in24 challenges, and picked out a few highlights to share. It’s got low-level assembly, declarative programming, and more!

Building a Compiler Backend (Part 1: Callisto)

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:00:00 +1000

The story of how I became a compiler developer, I guess. In the first part, you’ll see how a tiny benchmark program got me hooked on a neat little stack language.

#48in24 – Week 13: Scrabble Score

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 09:18:45 +1000

It’s time for that one well known word game! …no, not Wordle. I’ll show off a neat one-liner (not really), as well as a really terrible hack. Featured languages: Python, Scheme, C.

#48in24 – Week 12: Luhn

Sun, 14 Apr 2024 13:18:27 +1000

This week, I’m steali– sorry, validating credit card numbers. The featured exercise is the Luhn algorithm, used to check all card numbers. Featured languages: TypeScript, Perl, AWK.

#48in24 – Week 11: Sieve

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:53:44 +1000

Sifting through numbers is a remarkably neat way to generate primes, so we’re looking at the Sieve of Eratosthenes in three languages this week! Featured languages: Zig, Bash, Fortran.

#48in24 – Week 10: Allergies

Sun, 07 Apr 2024 09:30:20 +1000

Achoo! Week 10’s exercise is all about allergies, and I’ll be looking at bit fields and metaprogramming to solve it. Featured languages: Nim, Elm, Rust, plus a bonus!

#48in24 – Week 9: Parallel Letter Frequency

Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:06:15 +1100

Counting letters, but fast! (and hopefully without race conditions…) Featured Languages: Go, Java, Elixir.

#48in24 – Week 8: Circular Buffer

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:51:02 +1100

It’s week 8, which is a pretty circular number - and I’m writing some circular buffers! Featured languages: C, Groovy, Scala, plus a bonus one!

#48in24 – Week 7: Acronym

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 09:40:03 +1100

TWWBLAA! (This week we’ll be looking at acronyms!) Sounds simple enough, but there are a few tricky cases to catch. Featured languages: Haskell, Tcl, PowerShell.

#48in24 – Week 6: List Ops

Sun, 25 Feb 2024 11:18:15 +1100

This week, the battle of procedural and functional programming takes place… and a third thing? Featured Languages: Gleam, Swift, Standard ML.

#48in24 – Week 5: Protein Translation

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:13:45 +1100

I get to learn about biochemistry and functional programming in the same week of #48in24, what a deal! Featured languages: F#, Crystal, C#.

#48in24 – Week 4: Roman Numerals

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 12:40:19 +1100

In Week IV of #48in24, Roman numerals are the focus, and some relatively obscure languages were chosen. Featured languages: Elixir, Pharo, Julia.

#48in24 – Week 3: Raindrops

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:25:36 +1100

Objects and vectors and macros, oh my! This week is all about Exercism’s take on FizzBuzz. Featured languages: Ruby, R, Common Lisp.

#48in24 – Week 2: Reverse String

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 19:25:02 +1100

!2 keew rof emiT – sorry, time for week 2! This week the task is to reverse some strings, which is pretty simple… until it isn’t. Featured languages: JavaScript, Nim, C++.

#48in24 – Week 1: Leap

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +1100

Week 1 of #48in24 is here, and we’re leaping into it by looking at leap years! Featured languages: Python, Clojure, MIPS Assembly.

#48in24 – Introduction

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 09:00:00 +1100

#48in24 is a year-long challenge from the Exercism coding practice and mentoring site. As the year goes on, I will document my experience with it here.

Blentic Docs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

BlenTIC is a 3D model editor for the TIC-80 fantasy console, created by HanamileH. I have edited and hosted the documentation for it here.

Read the Docs

Scribbles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

scribbles.soxfox.me is a site that I’m using to collect smaller projects. Pages here have a minimal style, and are intentionally kept free of complex features.

Check it out

TXYBNIZ

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

TXYBNIZ is an experiment I made. It uses (an incomplete version of) the virtual machine from IBNIZ, combined with the visual style of tixy.land.

Check it out

Typit

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Typit is a clone of Wordle (itself inspired by Lingo), with infinite play mode and sharable words.

Play Typit