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12 Dec 2012Well, if this works then I’ve successfully added image embeds to my post editor.
© 2026 Reid D. McKenzie, all rights reserved.
© 2026 Reid D. McKenzie, all rights reserved.
It’s been a long time since I posted here last. I’ll admit it, I f’d up the server just before I flew out to SC12 so I lost most of my posts and generally screwed the pooch. Oh well… that’s what I get for trying to switch three systems from inittab to systemd for no reason in four hours before my flight. Anyway, I’m back. Or at least whenever you see this I will be. But my travails with managing my own system beg an interesting question: why manage my own hardware?
Well… the semester is over. Not quite… tests are still to come and I’m far from being free and clear but I still found some time to work the latest batch of kinks out of my server and add some new features.
I have to say that I’m absolutely in love with Less and Clojure right now. When I built reidmckenzie.com the first time I used PHP and hand-formatted the HTML using style= values that I typed by hand or more bizarrely generated with a Python script which approximated the functionality of a Markdown processor. But hey, I was a sophomore in high school and I didn’t know any better.
Once again, I’ve fallen into the trap of CSS floats and divs. Because of all the time I spend writing effectively functional code, I’ve fallen into the habit of letting my code changes race ahead of my testing suite because the individual functional blocks which I am composing are so trivial that the composition must be correct.
When I first got started with Clojure development I recognized that my blog (which I had handcoded using HTML frames in High School) was to be polite deserving of Geosites with all the baggage that implies. As I started looking for a Lisp on the JVM and found Clojure I also ran across Chris Granger’s site webnoir, which is a giant (and good looking) plug for the Noir framework which Chris built to make web devel in Clojure a little easier.
Well a couple days have come and gone since I got started on the M:TG engine and so far things are looking up. The signal based system I outlined last time makes a huge ammount of sense and works a treat to boot. As of right now I have a Signal class and about two dozen subclasses thereof which are more event specific. I have a Client class which will serve as a superclass of everything which recieves signals, and a GameInstance class which actually does the work to track turns, pass signals an generally keep things ticking along.
Carrying on with the M:TG sim project, here are some resources which I found on the subject through good ol’ Google….
Okay. Not gonna lie, I’m frustrated with SimpleVM as a project right now. Understood that I undertook it out of ignorance as an effort to learn something but that my initial poor design is now making the entire system messy is just a tiny bit