Monthly recap (June 2019)
Major updates: * Trip to Maui (again) … this time featuring (1) hiking, and (2) close encounters with sea turtles * Two movies with Tara: Secret Life of Pets 2, and Toy Story 4 * One of our friend…
Interesting links: June 2019
* Absolutely fascinating coverage of key (and forgotten) developments in the history of electrical technology * A lot of original music records are susceptible to getting lost * Inspiring: learning…
Rediscovering an older self-version
I've started a new blog or a new online journal so many times, some private, some public, that I've really lost track of all of them. This is mildly complicated because some of them were pseud…
Library haul (Jun 2019)
Guess we got a bit greedy there ...…
On the relevance of search results
Something darkly funny: was reading something with my daughter and came across something to do with gazelles and how they dance1, and thought, “hey, let’s look up videos of gazelles on Youtube! I’m su…
Monthly Curations: May 2019
* Speculation on “next-paradigm programming languages” * On the “struggles of an open-source maintainer” (by the maintainer of Redis) * Stretching the computational metaphor too far … * An overvie…
Back to Neal Stephenson ….
I think the first Neal Stephenson book I read was Snow Crash, though it was some sort of partial online copy and I didn’t finish it all the way through. This was sometime in the late 90s. I liked it,…
Monthly recap (May 2019)
Major updates: * Some backyard spruce-up: bird feeders, and my first gardening experience, a pot of badly-planted yet hardy Marigold * New fun activity with Tara: “quilting on paper” (more on that…
Current library haul
Interesting links: May 2019
* The big one for me: Fungi are older, possibly much older, than you thought * As the headline says: “Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882” * Discovering a millenium…
“Hello World” in Ocaml
I was curious if Zig was as good as Nim about “minimalist hello-world” builds (yes, a ridiculous metric, but still …), and found that yes, it was quite similar, but was surprised to find that Ocaml di…
“Hello World” in Zig
* Creating ➜ zig-playground git:(master) ✗ cat src/main.zig const std = @import("std"); pub fn main() !void { var stdout_file = try std.io.getStdOut(); try stdout_file.write(&quo…