Monthly recap (November 2019)
Major updates: * Tara turned Five! :-) * Went for a Frozen 2 viewing with her and her friends * A pump-it-up party :-| Minor updates: * Home maintenance: dryer had to be repaired, added a t…
Interesting links: November 2019
* “Artificial intelligence”, a few centuries ago * The “shape of the universe” * Interesting breakdown of The Matrix (and I’ve seen a few) * Old-time analog computers that … are a bit of a lost tr…
On writing instruments
After some trials over the past five years or so, I’ve found that I like to (physically, with pen and paper) write, I like to write a lot, and I like to write in a certain way. In terms of paper, I s…
Monthly Curations: November 2019
* Applying the lessons of the Golang scheduler to the Tokio scheduler in Rust * Speeding up Nixpkgs by avoiding subshells * Pessimism about engineering software * The Racket programming language i…
Substack
(or, "Dispatches from ebbs and flows in a mind-web") I’ve been toying with the idea of an email subscription option, with no success: * I considered TinyLetter earlier on but never got ro…
Monthly recap (October 2019)
Major updates: * Home with Tara for a week * Trick-or-treating with Tara 😀 * Poor sleep discipline 😔 Minor updates: * Finally got a “Real ID” * Met up with friends a couple of times * D…
Random synchronicity
1. There’s a particular house with a very elaborate Halloween setup, with movie scene recreations, and a screen playing various scenes. I take a few pics when I pass it once, about a week ago, settin…
Interesting links: October 2019
(I feel I’m making up for the lack of links for the last three months ...) * Running a blog for 25 years! * The active core of our galaxy * Craziness of San Francisco policy * The effects of ligh…
Books give-away, featuring Airtable
Roughly every three years, I find I’ve amassed too many books, and have to give some (around 50-75) away. There was a great “used books store” in downtown Mountain View, which (tragically1) had to cl…
Against Everything
Just picked this up, seems ... uh ... promising?…
Monthly Curations: October 2019
* Leo talking about making games in Common Lisp * Moving log data at massive (10x LHC) scale * Habits of good software design(ers) * An OS being built for … after the apocalypse * Quirky selectio…
Rorschach tests
Sometimes I have flashback memories of certain small well-defined thing-experiences, this is one of them. It’s about a book, this book, and the timeframe here is … about 12 years ago (!), a year afte…