Devlog
2024
Evolution Log
·401 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist finds more ways to see just how poorly his populations of boids are performing.
References Instead of Pointers
·86 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist desires to purge his code of unnecessary pointers.
Fast Forward
·622 words·3 mins
Wherein the performance of the boids is so unsatisfactory to the protagonist that he wishes to skip past most of their lives.
Press 'M' to Mutate, Select, and Repopulate
·601 words·3 mins
Wherein several generations of natural selection yields boids that still mostly go in circles but occasionally steer toward food.
Command-Line Implementation
·184 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist is surprised by a strange comparison result in C++, as if he’s never seen that before in Javascript.
Start Simple with the Neural Net
·586 words·3 mins
Wherein the boids are given brains, albeit very very small ones.
Screenshots using FileNamer
·548 words·3 mins
Wherein the boids give us a sense of their direction.
Screenshot to Memory, Then to Disk
·87 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist finds a way to avoid including multithreading in his project.
Docker Mailserver Out.
·149 words·1 min
Wherein the protagonist gives up on his dreams to become both a post man and a post office and repudiates any claims that it was is dream in the first place.
Docker Mailserver in AWS
·347 words·2 mins
Wherein the protagonist decides to become a post man and post office both.