Circus Broadside
About a small game with sailing ships that I’ve been tinkering with for far too long, and which has finally gotten a name.
I do things with computers.
Like many of my kind, after work I swap one computer for another.
With some of my smaller projects, I feel compelled to write about them here.
If I don’t hit “Delete” in time, it ends up here.
I have rebuilt my website. Some articles are still missing — or may disappear into the abyss forever.
2026
2023
A (Not Quite So) Elite Board Computer
Elite Dangerous: I want to be able to talk to my onboard computer. Mary, Sphinx, and libGDX are here to help.
2022
Speech Recognition with Sphinx
A small experiment with MaryTTS and CMU Sphinx4. The goal here wasn’t to transcribe sentences, but rather to recognize some defined commands.
Mary Speaks
While looking for a Text-To-Speech solution for Java, I came across MaryTTS. It’s been around for a few years, but is relatively lightweight and very easy to use.
2020
Warp by Numbers
In the second part of ‘Tracing Katia Sae’s Steps’, we calculate the duration of the great journey.
2019
New Eden in 7825 jumps
A list of routes through all warp gate-connected systems in the EVE Online game world ‘New Eden’.
Tracing Katia Sae's Steps
For the first time, a pilot has visited all star systems in EVE Online. A Python script should find the shortest route through all systems. The approach is a partly randomized pathfinding executed thousands of times in good old brute-force fashion.