Dyalog ’26 starts on Monday 12 October

Tools

This category covers the development and maintenance of APL tooling: interfacing APL with other languages like Python, customising the IDE and session with function keys and shortcuts, and the evolution of package management and source code tools in the wider ecosystem

Working with LLMs and Dyalog

In: AI, Tips and Tricks, Tools

Notes about this blog post: Working with an AI coding “agent” can make us more productive by automating boiler plating, helping with testing, and... Read

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Stefan Kruger

July 2026

Maintaining Py’n’APL Part 2: APL Arrays, Python Objects, and JSON

In: Tools

As part of the bigger, overarching refactoring goal of making Py’n’APL great again, I refactored some of the code that deals with sending data from... Read

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Rodrigo

August 2022

Maintaining Py’n’APL Part 1: The Beginning

In: Tools

Py’n’APL is an interface between APL and Python that allows you to run Python code from within APL and APL code from within Python. This interface... Read

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Rodrigo

May 2022

Enhanced Debugging with Function Keys – Evaluate selection

In: Tips and Tricks, Tools

See also Enhanced Debugging with Function Keys. When tracing through a complex dfn and reaching a guard (condition:result), I am often wary of tracing into... Read

By

Adám Brudzewsky

December 2020

Dyalog ’18 Videos, Week 6

In: APL Language, Dyalog '18, Events, Tools, Videos

Happy New Year – and Welcome to the 6th week of Dyalog ’18 video releases! If you enjoy geometry, 2019 starts with a couple of real treats; one which... Read

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Morten Kromberg

January 2019

Dyalog ’18 Videos, Week 4

In: Dyalog '18, Events, Tools, Videos

This week is mostly a deep dive into the new world of storing source code in text files rather than workspaces and other “binary” formats. However,... Read

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Morten Kromberg

December 2018

Dyalog ’18 Videos, Week 3

In: Dyalog '18, Events, Implementation, Tools, Videos

The four presentations from Dyalog’18 that we are releasing this week address both the visible (user interface) and invisible (performance) parts of... Read

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Morten Kromberg

December 2018

Displaying cross-references with SharpPlot

In: SharpPlot, Tools

Requirements: Update SharpPlot to v3.37 from my.dyalog.com > Downloads > Tools & Interfaces > GUI Tools > SharpPlot SharpPlot v3.37 introduces... Read

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Nicolas Delcros

April 2017

Over the Moon with Selenium

In: CTO, MiServer, Tools

Over the years, I have become more and more reluctant to write code without good regression tests – 35 years of software development have taught me that... Read

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Morten Kromberg

October 2015

News from Causeway – SharpLeaf (Alpha Preview Now Available)

In: SharpPlot, Tools

For more than 20 years, Causeway has been developing APL tools to produce automated publication-quality graphics and typesetting. They differ from most modern... Read

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Nicolas Delcros

September 2015

Isolated Mandelbrot Set Explorer

In: APL Language, Tools, Windows

It amazes me that an equation so simple can produce images so beautiful and complex. I was first introduced to the Mandelbrot set by the August 1985 issue... Read

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Brian Becker

August 2014

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