Hi, I'm Sam, software engineer

I’m playing around with the idea of a completely virtual retro game console, in the idea of Pico8 but closer to a Commodore 64.

The project is a work in progress, I work on it from time to time when I feel like it. That gives me the opportunity to learn C++, and 6502 programming.

The project consists of: - A virtual CPU, currently an emulation of a 6502 - An assembler to parse and compile a simple ASM language to 6502 instructions - A graphical editor to be able to write programs, run them in the virtual console, and debug it

Source code: https://github.com/dgellow/VirtualConsole

Because I wanted to understand how that works, I created a small web application that extracts mains colors from an image file, resulting in a color palette.

The application is available online. The core is really small, it is a simple implementation of a quantizer using an histogram. The N most frequent colors are then used to compose the palette.

Source code available at https://github.com/dgellow/imgcolor.

As I wanted to play a bit with Google’s Appengine, and to do some programming with my partner in life, we created together a simple bot for the chat application Telegram. The bot, available at @MovieReleasesBot, allows people to list incoming movie releases and subscribe to them to receive a notification a few days before the actual release.

The complete code is available at https://github.com/dgellow/movie-releases. Given that this project is something we do during our weekends and that my partner doesn’t have a programming background be aware that nothing here is optimized in any way, or covered by tests, or anything that would be considered production ready.

Still a fun little project I like to spend some time on from time to time (and that gives us some great whiteboard sessions!) 🙂.

One thing I find myself constantly checking on my personal machines is the amount of free space. macOS doesn’t provide a quick way to get that information without switching the context, that’s why I created DiskInfo.app, a truly simple application for the menu bar that displays some statistics. One click, get the job done. I use it all the time 😁. Unfortunately it isn’t available on the App Store anymore, 100€/year only for this small tool is way too expensive.

Source code available at https://github.com/dgellow/DiskInfo.

Because recursivity is funny 😃.

More seriously, I would like to improve my writing, have a place with my thoughts and projects, and see if I can keep a blog up to date. Thus this website.