SHRDLU

Inconsistent worlds are always fun places to visit

Notes on Cocoa and Objective-C from the late 2000s, a few pieces of music taken apart note by note, and Eyval Farsi — a Persian listening podcast. ~~Everything here is an archive; nothing new has been added for a while.~~ Lately also AI ramblings: small models built from scratch to see how the big ones work.

AI ramblings

Building small models from scratch to see how the big ones work.

A world action model in a sandbox 2026

Eyval Farsi

Farsi for the masses. 4 episodes, Persian transcripts with a vocabulary glossary.

Mashin Pashin 2016 · 01:28
Raft o àmad dar Tehran 2016 · 04:26
Friedrichshain 2016 · 05:33
Museye Melie Iran-bàstàn 2017 · 05:39

Cocoa & Objective-C

Mac and iPhone development, written between 2008 and 2009 at cocoa-nut.de. Aged into a period piece: pre-ARC, pre-Swift, pre-App Store.

Using Bonjour for iPhone/desktop application sync 2008
Ojective-C dot notation 2008
simpleTAN translated into english 2008
Relaunch an application 2008
Synchronizing the content of multiple NSArrayControllers 2008
simpleTAN Beta Announcement 2008
Debugging BAD_ACCESS with NSZombieEnabled 2008
Introducing simpleTAN 2008
Core Data Encryption 2008

Music, reverse engineered

Working out what is actually being played, note by note, and writing it down.