IanOsgood

Greetings,

I have done lots of anon edits and gnoming, and decided I ought to have a home here.

I work for The TOVA Company in Portland, Oregon programming in Java and C. I run scholastic chess tournaments for Chess for Success and coach my local elementary school team.

I used to work on Ward's wiki. My home there: c2:IanOsgood. I also did some code-knitting on Rosetta Code, a Program Chrestomathy.

Interests

Computer chess
Computer go (Amazed that AlphaGo came out of nowhere to become the best Go player in the world!)
History of chess and its offshoots shogi, makruk, and xianqui
Space topics
- Timeline of spaceflight (upcoming)
- Amateur rocketry - I was a member of the Portland State Aerospace Society, working on their high power rocket and avionics testbed. And their new OreSat project became the first cubesat designed in Oregon!
- Space colonization
- new space companies like SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Blue Origin
- the new US manned initiatives for commercial cargo and commercial crew
Astronomy
- Sagittarius A* the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
Bicycle commuting
Battery electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, especially those from Arcimoto, Tesla, Inc., and Aptera Motors (~~RIP~~ resurrected!)
Alternate energy, especially solar power and liquid fluoride thorium reactors
Volcanology: Erta Ale, Ol Doinyo Lengai, blue flame sulphur lava of Ijen, and of course, local Mount St. Helens
Forth programming language
Esoteric programming languages such as SNUSP - SNUSP was an article I originally authored (although I now think it and most other esoteric programming languages are effectively research or vanity projects, and should live on the esoteric programming language wiki instead)
Wikipedia:Unusual articles

Projects

Forth source test

 : fib ( n -- fib )
   0 1 rot 0 ?do
     over + swap
   loop drop ;

Hooray! The <syntaxhighlight lang=""> tag started supporting Forth around February 2017.