Interesting links: February 2020
* An excellent book review by Peter Thiel (okay, more than that) * Another thing universally felt, and then “discovered”: the polarization of reality * The “out-of-Africa” date has been pushed back…
Chapter books
The new thing for reading with Tara is books with (relatively) lots of words and a few pictures, with each book being part of a series, and each book divided into chapters. Some of what we've bee…
On the flow of text on the page
Ever since I’ve been doodling around on apps/tools like Notion1, Tinderbox2 and Roam3, I feel constrained when I look at the flow of text on a regular book. Of course, it had to be that way in the be…
Monthly Curations: February 2020
* Datomic overview * An attempt at Typed lisp * Another look at Guix * “Programming like Kent Beck” * Report on the 20th anniversary of SBCL * On tests as code * A humorous look at how programm…
Monthly recap (January 2020)
Major updates: * Visited Kennedy Space Center! (only got a few hours, but still …) * Went on the first cruise of my life (in the Bahamas … also, learnt that I’m not really a “cruise person”) M…
Interesting links: January 2020
* “The rise and fall of New york city …” * On the fractured sense of time in the 2010s * Turns out this building near where I work is a “Silicon Valley” prop * On how hard it is to truly forget th…
Monthly Curations: January 2020
* A mix of parody and seriousness, on Haskell and Ocaml: take 1 & take 2 * What’s new in Scala 3 * A look at Raku (and some myths) * On Paradise Lost * On math vs simulation * I might have p…
Interesting links: December 2019
* The tedious, annoying, banal “crypto-grifters” on the Blockchain cruise * There are still new Nazca lines to be discovered! * On the extent of “trolling by bots” on Twitter * On Trump’s strangel…
Annual recap: 2019
Me: * Moved from Pure Storage to Confluent * Started and finished my third 1000-piece puzzle * Annoying tax related issues, car battery trouble * Tentative steps towards backyard gardening (Marig…
Monthly recap (December 2019)
Major updates: * Tara’s birthday at Pump-it-up * Finished my third 1000-piece puzzle (more later) Minor updates: * Shivi’s Holiday party in SF * Car tire punctured by a random nail on the r…
Monthly Curations: December 2019
* The title says it all: Running a bakery on Emacs and Postgresql (!!) * If anyone remembers Terry Davis, a BBC episode of The Digital Human about him, his life, his work (it’s one of those truly bi…
Mac software
Saw this list of Mac software that Jack Baty uses and ... realized I have a lot of overlap ! https://baty.blog/2019/software-installed-on-the-new-16-inch-macbook-pro/ The only "big stuff"…