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…
Quick rules for personal technology
(Edit: found this while cleaning old posts, must be about 2-3 years ago, but seems very relevant still 😀) Bunch of suggestions from me, take it or leave it: * get off social media * no more free…
Dark Crystal
I kept watching past the last episode, and “the making of …” was just as thrilling as the episodes themselves! Puppets? Puppets! Glorious, CGI-enhanced puppets in so many shapes and sizes, requiring…
More on Notion and Airtable
I had talked about tentatively trying out both Notion and Airtable earlier, and I have more to report on that. Airtable is just a really great experience, makes it so easy to “just create a Base”, ad…