The Making of OTTrees
After the city of Ottawa released a data set of 40,000+ individual trees through it’s open data portal I decided to make something that would give a sense of digital awe and wonder to the trees of...
View ArticleIndiana Jones Distilled
Jones jones = new Jones(gun, whip, hat); BadGuy badGuy = new BadGuy(gun, funds, twistedAgenda); obscureMapDiscovered(); if (jones.getsMap){ searchForTreasure(); if (badGuy.getsTreasure){...
View ArticleTree Canada Project Post Mortem
A while back we were fortunate to get on CBC’s All In A Day radio program to talk about our OTTrees open data project made with the city of Ottawa’s street tree data set. Unbeknownst to us that program...
View ArticleslowMovement(williams)
Dream dream = new Dream(); Box box = new BoltedBox(dream); Hand hand = new Hand(box); Night night = new Night(hand); while (hand.holds(box.lid(tight))) { for (int iam = 0; iam <...
View ArticleThe Count Recursively Laugh Counting
The Count from Sesame Street came up in a code review and it was mentioned that if he ever tried to count his laughs it would be recursive and infinite due to his immortality. I wrote a small recursive...
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