Combining the two kinds of curated monthly posts
For a long time now1 I’ve put together a bunch of links that I’ve found interesting, and done this every month. In the beginning, I had two separate blogs (I can’t reconstruct the rationale behind th…
Oh captain my captain, or a look back at John Keating
At some point, Robin Williams will be forgotten, but not today. There are numerous movies of his which have influenced me a lot, and it would take too long to mention them, especially since my list wo…
Monthly Curations: May 2020
* How Google ruined the internet :-) * On malleable programming environments * ACM made a bunch of good stuff free for a while * Inspiring story on how the Crafting interpreters book was completed…
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I realized the only reason this is Wordpress is that (1) it allowed me to import older material from an old Tumblr, and (2) I'm still in the "write-somewhere-then-export-to-Wordpress" mo…
The problem with Kindle
I got my first Kindle a decade ago. I got my second and third Kindle in the years since, but while the divide is amazing (and imho, I wouldn’t even want more out of it at this point), it’s the library…
Monthly recap (April 2020)
Major updates: * Continuing to work from home, scattered, sleepy :-/ Minor updates: * Picked up and posted a little app I had made last year * Hair cutting experiment (using this) * Couple…
Interesting Links: April 2020
* Heh, BioShock: the collection (!) * A 210,000-year old human skull * On the economic impact of the coronavirus * On how Leo Tolstoy’s children’s stories aren’t considered “safe for kids” these d…
On the "Quilt" activity
Sometime last year, we were at a restaurant where they were nice enough to provide paper and crayons for my daughter, but the paper didn’t have the usual “shapes to color in”, and the crayons were an…
On metric time
About a decade ago, I thought briefly, about how the day would feel, if we had some sort of metric units instead of hours & minutes, then forgot about it. About six years ago, I had an Android ph…
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On debugging Elisp
Was playing around with Elixir, installed elixir-mode, but indentation wasn't working. About to give up, but took it as an opportunity to learn how to debug Elisp, and ... whoa, it was effortless…
On the shortened blog name
In the beginning, “ Abacus Noir Form ” was a play-on-words for ” A Backus-Naur-Form ”, which I soon realized was funny in my head, but not necessarily meaningful to anyone else. General inertia k…