I’ve a ton of great ideas for things to do with Petri nets. Colored nets in particular. CPN Tools ships with a great simulator, which is both fast and versatile. Unfortunately, it is extremely cumbersome to use. Therefore, I am working on a great project I like to cal CPNaaS – Colored Petri Nets as […]
Reality Check: Elon Musk and Manipulation
I think by now, everybody’s seen Elon Musk announce the Tesla battery. It’s a big ugly thing that will store power. It’s definitely interesting, but he annoyingly uses alarmist environmentalist lies to sell the product. Here’s the first lie, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, screen shot from the video in the link above: […]
Internet of Nothings without Friction
A couple weeks ago, I went to NLJUG’s Internet of Things developer day. It’s 15 years ago I was first introduced to IoT, and back then I made fun of it, because who in their right mind would want all their things on the internet? What we need to make IoT a thing is three things. […]
Teaser: A Modern Setup for CPN Tools
The past time I’ve been working on setting up a modern infrastructure for CPN Tools. It’s not done yet – I’ll post on this site when it is ready – but here are some teasers. First of all, modern distributed version control with Gitlab: Continuous integration and cross-compiling on 3 platforms where applicable using Jenkins: […]
Custom Dining Philosophers Visualization in CPN Tools using Simulator Extensions
User-contributed simulator extension making neat visualizations in CPN Tools. Here we see the dining philosophers with a pedagogical illustration all running inside CPN Tools. […]
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Before Instagram, Instagram Effects Were Automatic
Been setting up the new Photos app, which includes synchronizing a bunch of old photo albums. I stumbled over a bunch of old scans of analog photos from the 90s and wanted to share… I’ve tried to clean the pictures somewhat, but couldn’t be bothered to do much more than half-assedly improve the colors and […]
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