Home page of Sean Barrett, dysfunctional programmer.

my music my photos my games The Indie Game Jam my Lisa Germano fan site archive of (other people's) talk.bizarre Fail to Suck Day posts interactive fiction games and tools game writings: To Hell With Johnny: Falling Games - tracing the evolution of gameplay that leads to To Hell With Johnny (2005) Advanced Minesweeper Tactics (1999) capsule reviews of computer/videogames (2001) my Mario 64 playlog from my second playthrough writing about computers public domain Ogg Vorbis audio decompression -- seeking isn't implemented yet except with the weirder input API public domain JPEG decompression, public domain PNG decompression, public domain ZLIB decompression -- I mean public domain in the legal sense: I am the sole author of this work and I disavow any copyright claim over it. imv(stb), a Windows image viewer based around stb_image stb.h, my personal archive of "snippets" of C code that fix gaps/oversights/inconveniences in the standard C libraries Enumeraion of Polygon Edges from Vertex Windings, a tiny but convenient trick for code that deals with polygons (rewrite of "Efficient Polygon Edge Enumeration" from Journal of Graphics Tools Volume 10, Number 2) zip file of a number of simple Windows command-line utilities that I've written over the years and find handy Why the Web Sucks (You Just Don't Know It) (2004) Analyzing Judy: Judy is an engineered data structure as opposed to a compute theoretical one, by which I mean that it has been heavily tuned for actual real-world performance instead of big-O performance. This article looks at how it stands up to a plain old hash table implemented in 1/100th as many lines. (2003) Iteration is Hard (1998): how to iterate dynamic data structures SGREP (1998): sub-linear regular-expression searching SBOX (2000): a binary meta-file format robust sharp-edged volumetric fog (2000) in unextended OpenGL 1.0 public-domain C-source code for the unix 'factor' command One of my winning IOCCC entries after the C preprocessor gets through with it (which shows why it won) QMAP, a software-renderer for Quake 1 levels in 2000 lines of code an old rant about software patents my KnuthBucks general non-fiction writing: Micropayment Barriers, an article that paints a black picture about getting micropayments going SPEW, my old web journal Several Species of Small Formal Properties, a brief summary of my comments on Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton beau de Marot refrigerator magnet poetry fiction and constrained writing A Snowman Is No Man's Woman, a 50,000 word novel written in a month in 2002 for NaNoWriMo "I" before "E" except after "C" (1998), a study in counter-examples The Twelve Tribes (1993) -- on prejudice word palindrome (1991) Reads identically backwards and forwards--and backwards, identically reads. poem (1992) This poem uses only four-long word bits. Addled Al Enabled (1993), a first-half-of-the-alphabet lipogram Anagrammatic Story of Santa Claus (1991) Code Reuse (1991), a repetitive 150-worder Jabbywocky, by Louis Carroll (1999) and more comics etc. Comic Whispers (by ifMUD denizens and LJ acquaintances) Comic Whispers I - Desintation Peru Comic Whispers II - Zigmond Nebula: Space Psychiatrist Comic Whispers III - Jimmy Olsen's Pal Bob Dylan Versus the Flash Comic Whispers IV - The Carpet Of Anaxoragas (my contribution can be found by using the booze then chatting up the barkeep) Comic Whispers V - The Treasure of Parrot Blackpants (note: I participated in this one under duress, since I thought the form was designed for maximal incoherence, which I don't much like) an unauthorized max and cow adventure Meat Wars, Max Cannon meets George Lucas me: a game development biography a general biography my brother's website miscellaneous stuff

me circa 1998

my email address is sean at nothings dot org