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MinBOM (17 auto launches)

A ship designed to be cheap when built in auto-launch mode, by minimizing the number of component types (BOM = Bill of Materials).

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9-tile-wide ships

Plank (16 launches)

A 5-furnace, 2-bay, solar

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14-tile-wide ships

Cuban (25 launches)

A 14-furnace (equivalent) 4-bay nuclear

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Pencil (22 launches)

An 11.2-furnace (equivalent) 5-bay nuclear hauler.

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Factorio Iron and Copper factories for "Gleba start"

I'm using the "Any planet start" mod for Factorio to force myself to really understand Gleba.

These blueprints produce half a belt of iron and copper, with a little power plant as well.

These use minimal technology (you'll need to research assembler 2's), but still have some nice circuit tricks, bootstrapping by dropping about 200 spoilage in each wooden box, plus some fuel in the power plant (with automatic restart if fruits get interrupted).

No unprocessed Yumako and Jelly Nut are used directly, ensuring the seed ratio stays positive. However, you'll need to implement some sort of control on your Agricultural towers to ensure you don't overproduce and allow fruit to rot.

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Blog 2025/5/8

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A stdin-stdout passthrough which ignores SIGPIPE

One of the problems with using bash's set -o pipefail is that a command may fail with SIGPIPE if the next command in the pipepine exits before receiving all of its input.

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Blog 2025/4/11

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A demo of Python 3.10's match statement

Python's match statement is more powerful than I had at first realized.

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Blog 2025/4/10

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Running an x86_64 Terminal.app on arm64 Macs

Developers sometimes need to use Rosetta

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A simple Python function to parse command line arguments

Python's argparse has a bit of a learning curve,

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Blog 2025/4/9

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A general-purpose symbolic expression parser in Python

Symbolic expressions are a simple syntax for representing trees.