Charles Zhang articles - 34 total
DevLog 20250622: Procedural Context is Superclass (Child) of Dataflow Context
We have the same Subgraph node in both procedural and dataflow context - one might be wondering (from...
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[Share] Data-Driven Design: Leveraging Lessons from Game Development in Everyday Software
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki: Data-Driven Design. Overview Modern software often...
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[Share] SQLite
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki: SQLite. SQLite is a self-contained, serverless,...
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[Review] 20250620: The Plan to Supersede Excel
Soon enough, Divooka is almost here. Let's go back to the problem that got us started: practical data...
DevLog 20250619: Modularization Improvements
Overview When it comes to software scalability, proper code management is one of the key...
Topic 20250618: Procedural Context is More Learning (and Syntax) to Users
Overview When people first open Divooka, they see a network of interconnected nodes where...
DevLog 20250615: Bambu A1 (First Setup)
Overview This is the second 3D printer I've tried to set up, and the first one bought...
DevLog 20250613: Ol'ista Web Framework
If we look at any existing web server API, like ASP.Net Core below: using...
DevLog 20250611: Audio API Design for Divooka Glaze!
Glaze! is an interactive media framework in Divooka that features a Processing-like interface. ...
TechTalk 20250611: Factory Pattern - Separating Creation from Use
At its core, the Factory Pattern centralizes object creation into dedicated methods or classes,...
DevLog 20250610: Plotting in Divooka
Overview Plotting is one of those things people take for granted - only when you need it...
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[Share] SQL - A Quick Intro
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki. Overview In this article, we’ll walk through the...
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[Share] Beginner’s Guide to GitHub-Flavoured Markdown
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki Markdown shown on this page has limited rendering features,...
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[Share] REST API - A Refresher
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki Overview REST API is the HTTP interface following REST...
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[Share] Hello World in Divooka
Originally posted on Methodox Wiki Overview Divooka™ is a node‑based visual programming...
DevLog 20250531: Some Problems We've Had with Nodify (and Some Tricks)
The Windows version of Divooka node graph editor is using Nodify for node graph drawing. We've had...
Thought 20250530 Python in Excel
Very handy, hopefully it change Excel formulas forever and make every Excel user a programmer...
DevLog 20250523: Firebase Auth
The Authentication Problem Let's face it: develop a custom authentication service is...
DevLog 20250523: Sitemap and `robots.txt`
Search engine optimization (SEO) is not just about keywords and HTML metadata! Though those are the...
DevLog 20250522: Serverless & Serverside vs Client Side Rendering
Full Title: Serverless vs Client-Side Rendering vs Dynamic Content (Server-Side Rendering) vs...
DevLog 20250520: Search Engine Architecture
Overview For an internal database, we needed to implement some sort of text-based search...
DevLog 20250519: AWS API Gateway Note - HTTP API vs Rest API for API Type
Overview AWS API Gateway offers two RESTful API products: REST APIs (sometimes called “V1”) and HTTP...
DevLog 20250514: Multitenant and API Gateway Setup
Multitenant This might not be as relevant for self-hosted services, but for anyone...
Insight 20250513: Understanding Simpler Prompt Engineering through Multiagent Completion Setup
Was watching Learn How to Build an Agentic System and Enter our Hackathon to Win an NVIDIA GeForce...
DevLog 20250512 Visual Novel Game Framework (Highlights)
When set to imagine practical, easy-to-use, lightweight applications of Divooka, a visual novel game...
Commentary 20250511: WeChat Mini Program Development Platform
Tencent is everywhere, WeChat is ubiquitous, WeChat Mini Program is a big thing, much like Alipay,...
DevLog 20250510 Dealing with Lambda
(The technical term is "Closure") The essence of lambda calculus is with captures - be it simple...
DevLog 20250510 Methodox Wiki
Final website: https://wiki.methodox.io/ We've seen good success of MediaWiki for commercial...
Progress Share 20250509: Graph Local Lambda Calculus in Divooka
Now, this is absolutely dark magic! Being able to invoke functions enables composition and is great...
DevLog 20250508 Word Press for Methodox Blog
Our first (and current) official website for Methodox (here) was written by my friend Kong, who’s a...