Random Note: 878132
I was reading Cixin Liu’s books and not only do I like them, but they also reminded me of the different ”waves” of SF/Fantasy reading I’ve had in my life. Come to think of it, I have a strong impress…
On the post-COVID world
The effect of this virus has been to give “Hell is other people” a whole new literal meaning. The maxim of “avoiding other people” only heightens the various people-divides that had been developing s…
Monthly Curations: March 2020
* Can you believe this talk was delivered in 1995? 1995?! We’ll get there soon… * One person’s scientific method to improving as a programmer. Impressive. Don’t think I could do it. * Either hilari…
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…