Atlhack

Warmish winter day old friends hack

Nirmal
destroying scribd,
using custom version of pdf2ppm toget text info,
building a DHTML interface to view pdfs

Mansi
apartment hunting on the ipod

Tejus
tried to learn simpledb
laughed at Tyrus quotes
thinking of running his scmple project on AWS+simpledb

Alex
learning Scala
trying to figure out a good environment to write code in
did some code archeology on old GT code

Lindsey
wrote another pass of her scheme compiler
went to the Google Workshop for Women Engineers
graded scheme homeworks

Rob
tried and failed to install Processing
practiced Kanji on his mobile device

Mark
working on Corkbird
saving things to disk working, now saving to cloud
Java, Django, HTTP form-data

Cold day domestic hack
Pies, knitting, and code

Alex
– this weekend: learning Logo, wrote the “Accordian” [sic] problem in
it (and Haskell)
– it’s an acceptable-ish Lisp, although somewhat clunky. Also seems to
use templates instead of first-class functions
– queuing up a bunch of NLP papers to read
– tonight: Real World Haskell, chapter 4. Adventures in map/reduce.

Lindsey
– tonight: writing an automatic continuation-passing-style transformer
– wrote a compiler for a verysmall subset of Scheme (to x86_64 asm)
– interviewed for an internship at the Goog on Friday
– started being a TA for undergrad Programming Languages! Taught class
for a few minutes today.

Emily
– tonight: writing code in Sinatra, a ruby web framework

Molly
– tonight: knitting a lace shawl
– brought an apple pie and a berry pie
– explaining crochet vs knitting to Mark

Mark
– tonight: writing serialization code for corkbird
– wrote lots of testcases this weekend, which makes writing code easy!

(posting a day late)

Alex:
– finishing up chapter 3 of Real World Haskell
– thinking about extracurricular GWTs

Lindsey:
– working on the Factors and Factorials problem
— all that’s left to do is the formatting
— well, actually the algorithm could be better too

Mark:
– mod_rewrite for feeds and author migration on atlhack.org
– started on a Processing sketch-sharing site, Corkbird

Rob:
– hacked his school schedule
– something with Ableton

New Years Hacking

present: Graham, Lindsey, Alex, Alsie, Mark

Graham started on MSL,
his domain-specific language for mosaicing,
distracted by interactive fiction “violet”
he’s postponed the interactive fiction he’s writing about his research group (for the moment)

Lindsey is reading “Algorithms in a Nutshell”

Alex is looking at some Haskell

Mark making header images for atlhack.org,
randomly displaying them, writing SQL to copy tags from Drupal to WordPress
distracted by showing Alsie his collection of neat photos from the internet