VM’s Numbers Station

Hello world, I’m VM! Thanks for landing on my website. This is where I catalog my experiments and journeys learning about the things that interest me in math and engineering.

Recent Posts

A comparison between two sets of gem sprites. The bottom set by MattSquare looks more detailed.

Stratagem Devlog, Part 2
It’s not easy being tweened
2024-10-02

Stratagem v0.1.1. O: Start Game. X: High Scores.

Stratagem Devlog, Part 1
State against the machine
2024-09-03

A six-by-six grid of colorful gems encased in a steel square. The player is two-thirds of the way through level 2 with 920 points and two lives.

Stratagem Devlog, Part 0
Dusting the cobwebs off a fantasy console cartridge
2024-08-14

The logos of Vim (left) and Neovim (right) modified to spell the initials 'VM'.

Thoughts on Vim, Neovim, and Modal Editing
You can’t spell Vim without ‘VM’
2024-07-30

A heatmap of the letter 'W'.

Playing Visual Telephone with Autoencoders
A convoluted way to distort images with convolution
2024-06-24

A blackout poem that reads 'made you look'. The original poem is 'The Two Crabs' by Walter Crane.

Using Regular Expressions to Make Blackout Poetry
I regex your reality and substitute my own
2024-05-11

Five six-sided dice in different colors reading 'one, six, four, one, two' from left-to-right on a wooden background.

Solving Bruno’s Dice Probability Challenge
This nerd-sniping problem deals 5d6 psychic damage
2024-04-17

A series of icons spelling the rebus 'Prettier plus Quarto equals relaxed'.

How to Use Prettier to Format Quarto Documents
Prettified plaintext properly prepares posh powerful publications
2024-04-11

A mock fighting game screen showing a four-way versus match-up between math equation rendering methods. From left to right, top to bottom: a jack representing MathJax, a gear representing Codecogs, a math expression representing MathML, and the KaTeX logo.

On Math Equation Rendering and Accessibility Conflicts
This equation has no easy solution
2024-03-24

Animated GIF of a harmonograph diagram. A continuous line makes oblong and circular spirals while slowly decreasing in size.

Mathematical Drawings with Pendulums
Look at this harmonograph; every time I do, it makes me laugh
2024-03-03

Cropped picture of a technician checking the contacts on a desktop computer motherboard in a workshop.

Why Repairing Technology Matters to Me
Let me take things apart and put them back together, dang it
2024-02-18

A spotlight shines onto a golden hexagonal girih tile grid with florets. The golden girih grid casts a black shadow on the navy blue background.

My Art for Genuary 2024, Part 3
Getting with the (art) program
2024-01-18

Many multicolored marbles fall through the canvas. Their descent is slowed down by several plus-shaped spinners.

My Art for Genuary 2024, Part 2
Keeping my art up to code
2024-01-09

A grid of off-kilter squares resembling Vera Molnár's 'Structure de Quadrilatères'.

My Art for Genuary 2024, Part 1
Inktober for programming nerds
2024-01-04
 
A Literary Analysis of “Lena” from an AI Perspective
I found a neat short story, and you should read it too
2023-12-18
 
Giscus Comment Test
Testing, 4 5 6
2023-12-10

A password input box with asterisks is cracked in half, spilling a sea of numbers onto the bottom of the image."

The Mathematics Behind Password Safety
Let’s get cracking
2023-12-08

WCAG 2.2 Contrast ratio table of Gruvbox dark mode backgrounds and dark mode colors as an image.

Tweaking Color Schemes for Accessibility with Genetic Algorithms
Time to show some true colors
2023-11-20

'Friendship Ended with Mudasir' meme edited to show: 'Frienship ended with Hugo: Now Quarto is my best friend.'

Migrating to Quarto from Hugo
RIP to the clock boy but I’m different
2023-11-03

A 6-by-6 MathDoku Puzzle.

Solving MathDoku with Mixed-Integer Programming
KenKen™ is Hebrew for YesYes
2023-10-28
 
Web Development is Harder than I Thought
I am not immune to the Dunning-Kruger Effect
2023-10-14

A tree-like connected graph with blue, orange, green, red, and purple regions. Each colored vertex in each region either points to a similarly colored vertex or itself.

The Middle Squares Method: The First PRNG
And also why you shouldn’t use it
2023-10-01

Generation of 1113213211 from 13112221 in the Look-and-Say Sequence.

Programming the Look-and-Say Sequence in Racket
Trust the natural recursion with a recursive sequence
2023-09-20

Parked Cars: 3523, p-value: 0.500. 3523 small green squares with side length 1 sit on top of a large gray square with side lengths 100.

Testing RNGs with the Parking Lot Test
Cars are for squares
2023-09-08
 
Hello World!
Testing, 1, 2, 3!
2023-08-19
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