Brainfuck fucked my brain. It’s an interesting language to program in, modeling a very simple computer really, requiring extensive thought about the underlying fabric of my computer. I use if and while a whole lot so I think it’s good that I should have to think about how those constructs are implemented at the next level down. Brainfuck provides some of that insight.

The funniest bit was when I went to Dorkbot last night and was trying to tell a guy I met at the Furtherfield party about Brainfuck. He’d not heard of it, so I asked another programmer I’d met there if he’d done any Brainfuck, I said it just as the room went quiet in preparation for the next talk. “Yeah mate, I can sort you out some Brainfuck, how much do you need? Yeah wicked mate.”

Other than that I’ve just been working really. Greg has joined the team and is getting up to speed on much of the stuff that I’ve been doing in the last year. That’s no mean feat, and at first I overestimated Greg’s ability to become productive. That’s not a criticism of Greg in any way, I was way off when I thought he would be able to start producing code in the first days. So I’ve scaled my expectations back to something approaching normal, giving Greg space to work on a testing system in VB, which he knows, and to become familiar with the new ground.