Andy Balaam
where else to find them
website:http://www.artificialworlds.net
github:andybalaam
bluesky:andybalaam.bsky.social
mastodon:@andybalaam@mastodon.social
what they talk about
all 13 in the filters
where they keep going back
- ACCU6 editions2017–2023
on a stage with
who talks about the same things
- Alexander Chatzizacharias25 talks
- Ólafur Waage12 talks
- Daniela Petruzalek13 talks
- Peter Bindels15 talks
- James Edward Gray II9 talks
- Eleanor McHugh20 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Maths: The Fun Parts | ACCU 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Shows sets, groups and graphs using TypeScript examples and light Rust attempt, proves an Eulerian circuit iff every vertex has even degree, and builds a… | ||
| Rust for the C++ Programmer | ACCU 2023 | 2023-04-19 |
Compares concrete Rust features to C++ equivalents and shows how they catch real bugs: an Option prevents calling stats after shutdown, the borrow checker… | ||
| Vim for Fun | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Vim claims to be fast (dates to 1991), handles huge files and long lines, and turns editing into a decades-long game; the demo shows concrete commands (hjkl… | ||
| Matrix is a Distributed Real-time Database | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Describes Matrix as an open federation you can run locally (Synapse on port 8008, typically backed by Postgres) and uses JSON over HTTP (protocol v1.2). Shows… | ||
| What Am I? | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
Live-coded a simple simulation that visibly renders a green multi-part body and moves it by updating a leading edge array, mapping inputs to direction so arrow… | ||
| The 5 Colour Theorem | ACCU 2022 | 2022-04-06 |
A concise, constructive proof that any planar map requires at most five colors, using proof by induction and the Kempe-style idea of swapping along alternating… | ||
| What Does the Linker Actually Do for Us? | ACCU 2021 Online | 2021-03-10 |
#Programming #Cpp #AccuConf
Slides: https://accu.org/conf-previous/2021/schedule/
ACCU Website: https://www.accu.org
ACCU Conference Website… | ||
| Interesting Characters | ACCU 2021 Online | 2021-03-10 |
Covers how Unicode maps characters to numbers and bytes with concrete examples: 'A' = U+0041, 'é' = U+00E9, and U+1F4A9 (pile of poo) which needs four bytes in… | ||
| How does Git actually work? | ACCU 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Shows exact on-disk actions: git init creates a .git with objects, refs, config and a HEAD symbolic ref; git add hashes file contents (SHA‑1), writes a… | ||
| How Kotlin makes your Java code better | ACCU 2019 | 2019-04-10 |
Concrete examples show Kotlin replacing verbose Java patterns: a Java value object with constructor, getters, equals, hashCode and toString becomes a data… | ||
| Scheme Lisp: Feel the Cool | ACCU 2018 | 2018-04-11 |
Claims that Scheme is “the best language” get tested with concrete examples: the one-line syntax of s-exprs, building lists from cons/car/cdr pairs, recursion… | ||
| How to write a programming language | ACCU 2017 | 2017-04-24 |
A tiny interpreter called Cell (github.com/andybalaam/cell) is implemented in Python and deliberately short to show core ideas. The lexer tokenizes input, the… | ||
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