Automatically remove wordiness from your writing

Blame the extensions (comic)

Exploring sound with Wavelets

Here's a program to create scalograms of sound files.

Fun with Colour Difference

Are you looking for a nifty way to choose colours that stand out? Are you the type of person who is not satisfied until you have mathematically proven that your choice is optimal?

Creating portable binaries on Linux

Distributing applications on Linux is hard. Sure, with modern package management, installing software is easy. But if you are distributing an application, you probably need one Windows version, plus umpteen different versions for Linux. In this article, we'll create a dummy application that targets the following operating systems, which are commonly used in business environments...

It's a dirty job... (comic)

The Curious Complexity of Being Turned On

In software, the simplest things can turn into a nightmare, especially at a large company.

Building a better rhyming dictionary

Back in 2007, I created a rhyming engine based on the public domain Moby pronouncing dictionary. It simply reads the dictionary and looks for rhyming words by comparing the suffix of the words' pronunciations. Since that time, I have made some improvements.

Comment spam defeated at last

For years when running this blog, I would have to log in each day and delete a dozen comments due to spam. This was a chore, and I tried many ways to stem the tide.

A Rhyming Engine

Here's a rhyming engine, written in 1000 lines of C++ code. It uses the freely available Moby dictionary, and full source code is provided.