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aarongough

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March 3, 2009 (17y ago)
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Machinist, Software Developer, Knifemaker.

I'm interested in: - Micro scale manufacturing - Material science - Programming - Product design - Toolmaking - Video production

I love making tools that other people love to use, and I have an open-source addiction!

Feel free to get in touch about anything!

http://goughcustom.com/ http://thingsaaronmade.com/ http://github.com/aarongough

aaron@goughcustom.com aaron@aarongough.com

  1. Introducing Flea - A tiny Lisp written in Ruby (github.com)
    12 points 0
  2. A quick intro to writing a parser with Treetop (thingsaaronmade.com)
    25 points 21
  3. Writing an S-Expression parser in Ruby (thingsaaronmade.com)
    3 points 1
  4. Show HN: Koi - a programming language that teaches language implementation. (thingsaaronmade.com)
    70 points 12
  5. Hardware Upgrades for Developers (thingsaaronmade.com)
    3 points 0
  6. Ask HN: What would you like to see in a new educational language?

    Over the last few weeks I have been working on implementing a programming language to teach myself more about how they work. The point has come where I need to decide on a direction for the project. Now that I know how…

    1 points 3
  7. A short intro to writing a lexer with Ragel. (thingsaaronmade.com)
    2 points 0
  8. A Succinct Intro to Creating Recursive Descent Parsers (rubyquiz.com)
    16 points 2
  9. Bootstrapping a prototype-based object-oriented language in 44 lines of code. (thingsaaronmade.com)
    14 points 11
  10. ParrotVM internals with Allison Randall [video] (video.google.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Ask HN: Thoughts for a new language?

    Hey all! A few months ago I decided that I needed to learn the nitty-gritty of how programming languages work much more intimately. With that in mind last week I started the journey toward creating my own programming…

    4 points 5
  12. Improving application throughput 9x with asynchronous responses in Rails 3 (thingsaaronmade.com)
    34 points 3
  13. Tell HN: Ajax-Gist - A web-service that makes GitHub Gists accessible via Ajax

    http://ajax-gist.com/ I built this on Saturday night as part of the infrastructure that will be used in the new version of ReadMyCode.org I warmly welcome any feedback or bug reports, either in comments here or via…

    6 points 1
  14. DeepOpenStruct - Simple data structures from complex nested data in Ruby (github.com)
    2 points 1
  15. Ask HN: At what point does a 'website' become an 'application'?

    I'm struggling a little with this rather mundane question of terminology: even the simplest of my personal 'websites' are built in Rails. They interact with a database, they are stateful, they are tested. Are they just…

    1 points 4
  16. Inspired by HN: ReadMyCode.org - Idea to reality in 24 hours

    Yesterday I was inspired by this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383705 After reading it I immediately got to work fleshing out the concept and I now have a minimal version live! It includes GitHub (Gist)…

    70 points 58
  17. Ruby-traileraddict: easily display movie previews in your application

    http://github.com/aarongough/ruby-traileraddict

    2 points 1
  18. Ruby: shallow copy surprise! (thingsaaronmade.com)
    10 points 25
  19. Ask HN: Feedback on a personal site for a coder.

    Hey all! I spent yesterday re-building my personal site and I would love to get some feedback on it. The goal of the website is to showcase my recent projects and to raise my profile online, hopefully with the end…

    13 points 25
  20. XM25 - The gun that shoots round corners (theregister.co.uk)
    3 points 0
  21. HN style commenting in Rails - 7 lines of code (github.com)
    1 points 1
  22. Add threaded comments to Rails in only 7 lines of code: has_threaded_comments (github.com)
    3 points 1
  23. Enhancing search using subtraction. (blog.thingsaaronmade.com)
    6 points 4
  24. Automatic content moderation using validates_text_content (blog.thingsaaronmade.com)
    7 points 17
  25. Why Hollywood is going 'Teal and Orange': Memory Colors (prolost.com)
    5 points 1