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…
Continuing thoughts about the “static blog”
After some deliberation, I feel there’s no point in either (1) keeping a separate static-only blog and this blog, or (2) keeping two separate Wordpress blogs, because * I don’t have the mind space f…
Monthly Curations: April 2019
* On “the programming language conundrum” * The old-ish (as of 1984) documentation on Xanadu * Note: Really trippy! Nomenclature includes words like "poomfilade" etc :-) * Some…
Interesting links: April 2019
* SpaceX managed a triple booster landing (!) * In the “somewhat ancient history” category, a look back at Ashurbanipal of Assyria * In the “check out this new animal” category: a giant ancient her…
Monthly recap (April 2019)
Major updates: * Couple of hikes with Shivi and Tara, including one over-ambitious one * Tara had her first surgical operation :-( … an endoscopy … and it turns out she has to be on a gluten-free d…
Mini-Library haul
Wondering if I should switch to some more structured way of recording all these ... would make for a nice database to look back on later!…