Lubutu

I’m cls, and this is my home here on the Internets.

I study Computer Science at Kent, and am the lead developer of dmenu. I like making things.

Ideas

• On Structural Regexes – the theory behind multi-editing

• Ivo – a reimagined Unix terminal system

Code

• dmenu – a minimalist X application launcher
• UTF-8 Library – lightweight Plan 9-esque libutf

Natural languages are “baroque and awful”... Nevertheless, people frequently write elegant, readable and coherent prose in natural languages. And they enjoy doing so. — Larry Wall

• Hungarian algorithm – for O(n³) assignment
• Spawning in Unix – a guide to C process spawning

Mirrors

• why the lucky stiff – A Costly Parade
• why the lucky stiff – This Hack Was Not Properly Planned

The Serious Skeleton Has Emerged From His Crypt Of Contemplation And He Has No Funny Bones For You! — why the lucky stiff

• Julian Dibbell – Radical Opacity

Misc

• Curriculum Vitae

There was once a Monad called IO,
Who was seldom understood and cried “oh,”
“Why can’t you see that []
As a Functor’s often missed,
But whose >>= is so much like my own?”