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"…
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…