Blog Archive

Reflections on code, the things I read and what I've been up to.

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VMs — Modules

There are a few guiding principles behind the design of Indu. Keep the language small with only a few constructs is one. Encourage building programs by assembling small pieces into...

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VMs — Assignment

Assignment is interesting. It’s one of the few places where the syntax tree does map well to the execution, but you can’t get to where you want to go through...

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startups 3 min read

Uber in London

On Friday, September 22nd, TfL announced that they will not issue a private hire operator licence to Uber after the expiry of their current licence at the end of the...

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VMs — Parsing and Syntax

So far the Pandita virtual machine has three phases: a parser that produces an abstract syntax tree, a compiler that takes the AST and produces byte-code, and a virtual machine...

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Writing A Virtual Machine

For my side project, Pandita, I’ve started writing a virtual machine implementation of the core language, Indu. I’ve been doing this as a hobby in my spare time, roughly since...

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A Failure of Optimism

I grew up in Darwin, Australia and could see firsthand the undercurrent of racism there and in the rest of the country. I lived in Australia until 2011, and observed...

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