About 30 years ago, I had an idea for a coding game inspired by Nomic. It occurred to me last month that all of the tools I need are readily available now.

The pen-and-paper game of Nomic (by Peter Suber) has an

There are still a few of us (at least two) who are using MK:DEFSYSTEM. The venerable system construction tool has accumulated a lot of ancient cruft, some of which quite convoluted.

Recently I went back to MK:DEFSYSTEM and "cleaned up" some of the code, especially regarding the pathname construction for each component.  I also used some simpler hierarchical trick...

Pointer-rich data layouts lead to suboptimal performance on modern hardware. For an excellent introduction to this, see the article The Road to Valhalla. While it is specifically about Java, many parts of the...