Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound
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Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound
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Techie, #scifi writer (galaxybound.com).

Live in Croydon, London, UK. Originally from Norway.

#sf #sff #sciencefiction #books #author #science #space #linux […]

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I've written zero lines of code. I've *read* some of them, and in response, I've written about 3 paragraphs telling it to stop and refactor, with some pointers, a couple of times.

It's executed *good* refactors, and the state of the code is frankly shocking - in a good way - for a 10-day-old […]
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m.galaxybound.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
(While I wrote the above, it augmented its spec by showing how AOT compilation of static/literal regexps could be done via the NFA -> DFA path and then generating code by generating my compiler's AST nodes directly from the DFA)
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
... written a detailed treatise on Thompson's construction (of course, it'd know that), followed up with an outline of NFA -> DFA conversion, and then followed up with a *code generator* for DFA -> x86 assembly.

*And started implementing it*.

None of this is "hard", inasmuch as these algos are […]
Original post on galaxybound.com
m.galaxybound.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
And now it's *editing the dashboard* using the graphical editor....
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Claude couldn't find out how to access all functionality via the HA API, so now it's browsing the Home Assistant admin interface via Playwright and installing stuff for me.
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Forgot I also had these.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
59% passing now...
October 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM