Chastity White Rose

Tag: ai

  • new program: chastearg

    I wrote a small program for both Linux and DOS assembly. It is very easy to explain what it does with some pictures. The first picture is what it looks like when I use the Linux version on my Debian system. The second is the DOS version running under the DOSBOX emulator.

    As you can see, the words surrounded by quotes are displayed on the same line because they count as one argument. Linux handles this by default but DOS needed some help. I had to rewrite my entire argument filter for the DOS version.

    The reason I wrote this project and worked to make it consistent for both DOS and Linux is because I wanted to do an upgrade to the DOS version of chastext. As you can see from the picture below, I have succeeded!

    When I first posted about my chastext project, some people said it was useless because we can already use sed for Linux or other tools for find and replace. However, my assembly versions are simpler and faster than sed when you don’t need regular expressions. They also don’t depend on anything other than interrupt calls of the operating system.

    But more importantly, their argument is stupid. Writing similar programs to existing programs is a great programming exercise and is especially important for tiny projects where I don’t want to implement all the features of a program or its dependencies. I can also bring the program to platforms that the original program does not support, such as DOS.

    This attitude some people have is one that I don’t like. Should I not sing just because Taylor Swift can sing better than me? Should I not play the piano just because other people can do it better than me? Or should I not play Chess just because I can’t do it as well as Magnus Carlsen or a chess engine?

    I started programming for the joy of learning and writing me own things. I often reinvent the wheel such as how I wrote my own strlen and strcmp functions for my chastext project. I don’t have access to the C standard library with the way I am doing it. I can’t imagine criticizing someone else’s programming project just because it has features to a similar tool that may exist. Otherwise, I would be saying Linus Torvalds should not have created Linux just because Unix and Minix existed which had similar file systems.

  • Podcast and Programming Update 4-26-2026

    A lot of important things are going on in my life right now. Yesterday, I did episode 30 of the podcast series that my mom and I do together. It is the start of a mini series on Pride Month and the LGBTQIA+ community. It means a lot to have my mom as my ally in the fight for equality at this time, when transgender people are a punching bag of politicians and organizations like the Heritage Foundation lobbying them to discriminate against us.

    On a completely unrelated note, I often do computer programming to help me relax because it brings order to the chaos of life, and I am getting good at it. I have been working on creating a small set of utilities. My first two tools: chastehex and chastecmp, have been optimized to the extreme both in C and Assembly language. I recently made some changes to the C version so that the output of the programs matches the Intel assembly language versions for consistency.

    For each of these tools, I have created a separate repository for them, which includes not only the C source (which can run on any platform), but also the assembly versions for DOS, Linux, and even Windows.

    https://github.com/chastitywhiterose/chastehex
    https://github.com/chastitywhiterose/chastecmp

    Perhaps the reason these tools were so much fun to work on is that they do one job and do it well. I have still been thinking about what other tools like this I might create. The fun is that I optimize them for maximum speed, but readability of code at the same time.

    I have also made some attempts at making another game, but nothing has quite inspired me in that direction as much as doing simple text utilities. I will be studying common Linux commands in order to see if there are any gaps in functionality that I can fill by writing a tool for. I want to make something new that doesn’t exist. Chastehex certainly meets that criteria, but I wonder what else I can do?

  • Advice to a new Programmer

    This month I started a Programming 1 class as part of Full Sail University’s ACE program. One of the other students asked me some questions and I ended up writing a larger response than I planned. I think my information will be helpful for other people who are new to programming.

    Hello chastity, I’m Ty. I appreciate you teaching others what you know. I do not know anything about programming, but I’m hoping I learn a lot from this college course and make friends like you. I would love any tips you have for me, as a programmer newbie. What language to start with? Fundamental apps, tools, services, etc.. anything I should to start. Thank you chastity.

    There are many tools I can recommend. Mostly, I stick with Free and Open Source software. I write most of my code in the C Programming Language, which came before C++. I use the GCC compiler, and I even use GNU Make to automate compiling and running my programs.

    I am looking forward to learning about how C++ is different than C. I always found C to be an easy language because it is smaller than C++, and I have most of the functions memorized.

    Also, you may find this helpful.

    https://chastitywhiterose.github.io/Chastity-Code-Cookbook/

    It is a book/website I have been writing to help teach programming, but also to share some of my impressive code examples and philosophy of why I promote Free Software.

    Everything on there is entirely free and released under the GPL3 license. I consider it my act of community service to give back to the open source community because it has benefitted me all my life. I have a blast compiling my C programs on Debian Linux with GCC on computers too old to run modern versions of Windows. I don’t even use an IDE. I only use a console and a text editor as if I were living in the 1980s. But at least this Programming 1 course teaches things as most humans would find convenient.

    I can also probably help you with specific programming questions. What operating system do you use, and how is your general math knowledge? I think you will find that no matter what programming language becomes your favorite, every data type really is numbers, even such things as colors or coordinates for shapes in video games.

    Most of the magic in the video game, Chaste Tris, that I published comes from my knowledge of numbers rather than it does being a good programmer. I consider myself more of a gamer and mathematician than I am a skilled programmer.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1986120/Chaste_Tris/

    I also wanted to mention some cool text editors that you might like. On Windows, Notepad++ is the most convenient text editor because it has syntax highlighting, but it loads up faster than Visual Studio if you are doing your own programming for fun, which isn’t required for the class.

    https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

    But I also recommend Geany because it runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux. I use it quite a bit when I need my code to be more readable for larger projects.

    https://www.geany.org/

    I think the most important feature of a text editor and/or IDE for a programmer is the ability to see the line numbers because when a compiler tells me an error I have on a specific line, being able to see which line that number is on helps out a lot. The second most important feature is to choose a highlighting syntax that is easy on your eyes. Each person is different, and their eyes perceive colors differently. A lot of these editors will let you choose a scheme that works for you, or even create your own. For example, you might like numbers to be in blue text and functions to be green. Or maybe you like a black background with bright colors like magenta or yellow for the text. I like my code to look beautiful as well as to compile and run successfully.