Working notes: Animating k-d trees
January 5, 2020
Amid the post–New Year spate of project roundups, I discovered Luke Pattons’ Canvas Cards project, and through it some mesmerizing procedural animations by Raven Kwok.
CSS Trivia: Rotated table headers in 2019
October 13, 2019
Recently I built an HTML report to aggregate the results of some automated jobs. The table headings being much longer than the table’s contents, I wanted to set the headings at a 45° angle. When I Googled for how to do this with CSS, the answers I got were all years old and involved some complications that seem to have become unnecessary. Since I didn’t find a current guide, I wanted to record what I settled on.
Fixing C arrays, four decades later
August 10, 2019
One of the greatest challenges in teaching C is the idiosyncratic rules that govern string and array variables. While teachers can delay this hurdle until the second or third week by focusing on programs that use printf with static strings, it can’t be put off much further.