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Checklist App

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:43:01 -0400

I was using a very basic checklist app on my phone the last few years but it was slowly getting more adds which is annoying. Google Keep Notes was already on my phone but even though it does not have any adds, I don’t want Google having access to my weekly groceries.

I was checking out Gemma 4 E2B on my computer and I decided to vibe a little bit. When it made a functional checklist, I added a menu of checklists and offline functionality. The tiny model was a bit too confused about getting a menu of checklists when there was already checklist.

Site Revision 3

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 12:00:01 -0500

After not touching my site for a few years, I decided to revamp it from using just using raw HTML/PHP to using a static site generator. First, I will talk about Version 2 of the site.

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Version 2 is basically version 1 but with W3.css instead of bootstrap. Yes, I was using a CSS Library developed by W3 Schools instead of Twitter.

About

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:57:38 -0500

Website for the sake of having a website and gives me a portal to share any thoughts I have.

Terminal Unity

Tue, 22 May 2018 18:36:39 -0500

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I recently started to write a cross platform terminal user interface library. This was inspired by the console adapter project that I had to do in 5th semester. The only problem it has is that it is very Windows heavy so if I wanted Linux support I would anyway have to write the whole thing from scratch.

I am trying to make the API very simple, it will have shallow inheritance so I only expect one subclass on each platform. Write now the Windows version is using the WIN32 console API and I am currently working on a ncursesw implementation.

Pong

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:52:56 -0500

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The time had finally come for my last advanced C++ project at fanshawe. The project was to create a C++ wrapper library for Win32 Berkeley sockets and make a client/server program that used the library project. First thought no questions asked was to make Pong for two people to play over the network, no questions asked.

Due to the Ontario Colleges going on strike that term, I had Christmas break to work on it. Usually classes would be done by mid-December but they got extended a month.

Trie Project

Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:38:41 -0500

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Fourth term at Fanshawe College was a rough term. It took place during the summer and unlike most other terms, 3 courses were done the first half and the other 3 courses were done the other half. I did not like it since twice the content was pushed with only half the time for my mind to soak the information. Though I did have a lot of fun with the Trie Project in Design Patterns 2 with C++; I was strangely addicted to it and got it done before most people. I didn’t have an addiction like it since my start in Warframe.

Pointers

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 02:58:00 +0000

Pointers are what seperate C/C++ from other programming languages as memory addresses can be accessed directly

int x = 5;
int* ptr = &x;

The last line basically reads as: integer pointer ptr = memory address of x.

What can also be done is:

int zPtr = new int(42);

This will allocate memory for an integer initilized with the value 42 on the heap instead of the stack

If a failure occurs, new will return 0 or an exception

Multiple Inheritance in C++

Sat, 26 Aug 2017 02:54:00 +0000

C++ allows for multiple inheritence. While this is a strong feature, it is also a dangerous one if care is not taken.

To start, this is what we might expect of multiple inheritence relationship

But this is what actually happens:

As you can see, the Bernies Mountian and Golden Retriever classes each have their own dog class instead of sharing one. Here is a representation in ram:

Function Pointers

Fri, 25 Aug 2017 02:58:00 +0000

This demonstration is just example code of a C function pointer

#include <iostream>

int add(int x, int y)
{
return x + y;
}

int subtract(int x, int y)
{
return x - y;
}

int main()
{
int (*fPtr)(int, int) = add; //Declaration and assignment.
fPtr = subtract; // demonstrating that it can point to different functions
std::cout << fPtr(2, 4) << std::endl;
}

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