Category Archives: Programming

[Electronica] Caustik – Add9

Just added a new electronica track to soundcloud. add9 is the chord returned to at each phrase. Yea, so maybe I’m not great at coming up with names…

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autoblitz + source code

Since some folks have expressed interest in trying this bot for themselves, I decided to share the source code and binary It’s not perfect, but you can tweak the source code (for example, changing how long rp_thread::sleep() is called, and … Continue reading

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Cxbx Update (Smashing Drive in-game)

Updated the official Cxbx site, with an update from shogun: http://caustik.com/cxbx/

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cygstart

Just stumbled upon a simple but really useful cygwin command – “cygstart .” Typing this command will do something simple, but really nice. It will open an explorer window at the your current directory. Seems so simple and dumb, but … Continue reading

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Wtf, MS?

When you see this line of code in your source window, how does your brain read it? My brain says “There’s a hex number, with a couple of 1′s in it.” Guess what? WRONG. It has one ’1′. The end … Continue reading

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Cxbx Progress

There was some amount of activity in a private branch in the Cxbx project recently.. I have been talking to a developer, Martin, who has spent some of his extra time fiddling with Cxbx. He was able to get some … Continue reading

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Painless Debug Console

I have had the pleasure of writing a pretty large number of apps for Windows. There are a few things that I have learned, over time, that have really helped to improve my productivity. One of those things is a … Continue reading

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DOS "debug" fun

Sometimes you get the urge to do some programming, but you don’t have access to a compiler. Luckily, virtually every Windows PC in the world has a utility called “debug” installed. This little program lets you input 16-bit x86 assembly … Continue reading

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Ridiculous C-code

For no particular reason I decided to write the following confusing line of C code today… const _=0;do;while(0?0,1:!_,_); Might make an interesting interview question. Can you parse it in your head? Here are some reasons why this seems very confusing: … Continue reading

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