Ken Shirriff's blog

I saw a posting on news.ycombinator entitled " Take the Tetris test (an Arc version, anyone?) ", which suggested writing a simple...

Recently, I've been reading Programming Collective Intelligence , which is a practical guide to machine learning algorithms, showing how...

At work we have a nifty electronic postage kiosk that will weigh letters, compute the postage, print a postage strip, and bill a credit card...

The code that implements Arc illustrates many useful programming techniques. Some of the techniques occur multiple times, and can be consid...

The introduction of the Arc language has spawned a mini-boom of Arc compilers and interpreters implemented in everything from JavaScript to ...

Ajax is surprisingly easy to use with the Arc language. This article shows how to implement Ajax-based autocompletion and dynamic page upda...

I've created documentation of Arc's HTML generation operations (from arc.arc). There are a lot of different functions there, but I...