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Haywright, now with words!
Friday 27th October 2023
Some months ago I wrote Haywright , a filler text generator that took an input text and produced output that was random, but had the feel of the input. As I mentioned in a recent post , at one point during development I tried implementing word-based tokens, but abandoned it as it felt like a lot of unnecessary code duplication. Well, ever since then the idea has remained in my mind, stewing away…
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Haywright: filler text generator
Wednesday 28th June 2023
A while back I read a blog post by Dr. Drang about ChatGPT , which briefly discussed a way to generate text from a source input that, while random, had something of the feel of the original. This idea resonated with me, and after I read the original Computer Recreations article Dr. Drang’s post mentioned, I decided to try my hand at writing a program in Rust to do the same thing, based on the des…
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QA Testing
Monday 3rd December 2018
As a software developer I spend a lot of time writing defensive code: routines to check user input and handle it when it isn’t what’s expected. This blog post by Bill Sempf illustrates the kind of absurd lengths we sometimes have to go to if we want our software to be secure. I’ve reproduced some of the best responses here. A Quality Assurance engineer walks into a bar… orders a beer. orders 0…
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