Lara Schenck
Lover of programming, maker of monsters
Tag: computer science
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Weekly Wanderings #4 (1-1-3)
1 thing that has been hard, 1 insight/connection to my past, 3 things I been using for pro-active time tracking
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Idea: Desugared Design Systems
I learned about the concept of desugaring from a lecture on programming languages, and I wonder how that would apply to design systems.
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An brief explanation of recursion for UI programmers
A high level overview of recursion with an analogy that will be familiar to front-end UI programmers.
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Does the "continuous" in Continuous Integration come from continuous mathematics?
A quick post about realizing an intersection between my existing knowledge and something new I am learning. Well, maybe they are both new things.
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Researching DSL stuff, ended up on context-free grammar
Hastily written post with the results of some free-form Saturday language research.
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Is CSS Turing Complete?
I took a deep dive into this question, and the answer is: kinda, mostly, yeah! CSS + HTML + user input is Turing complete. Is it possible to remove the user input part? Then I can re-title this post to be more, ahem, declarative.
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Today I am 11110!
This is the first official installment of a new tradition, Binary Birthday, where I re-learn binary every year on my birthday and express my new age as 1s and 0s.
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Binary Birthday
First of all, it’s not my birthday. That said, I had a cool idea for a birthday tradition that I want to record lest I forget it!
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Browser Mechanics In My Own Words, Part 2: The Browser is An Interpreter
The code we humans write cannot be read by computers – it must be translated into machine code. Compilers and interpreters do that, and the browser is an interpreter!
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Browser Mechanics In My Own Words, Part 1: Decode Bytes to Unicode Code Points
This is the first in a potentially long series about browser mechanics, in my own words. Read on to learn about one of the first steps a browser takes: decoding bytes to Unicode code points.
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CSS Algorithms: Changelog and Sources
Is CSS a programming language? What is a “CSS algorithm”? Read on to answer these questions, and to learn how CSS fits into the world of programming and computer science.
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2017: Year in ReviewWhat’s up, 2018!My 2017 Year In Review post ended up morphing into a longer article, so for now, here are some goals and plans for 2018. They can be boiled down to WordPress, Computer Science studies, and writing.
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Day 6: Algorithms – Sorting Algorithms in JavaScript
Algorithms have got a bad, scary, rap. And you know what? It’s for good reason – understanding an algorithm is pretty doable, but implementing an algorithm in code of your own? It’s hard. I went through writing some common sorting algorithms in JavaScript with lots of help from the Internet. Take a read!
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Day 4: Data Structures – I Made a Hash Table
Apart from hashtags, my association with hashes is encrypting passwords in a database. That association is correct in terms of what a hash is, but there are also hash tables, hash functions, hash maps, and oh my gosh, more hash things for sure. Let’s focus on a hash function and a hash table and building…
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Day 3: Data Structures – Stacks & Queues
Stacks and queues are quite similar in that they are both linear and abstract data structures (meaning they describe the behavior of a different data structure, like a linked list or array). All the action in terms of adding and removing items happens at their ends, and their main difference is in which end that…