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!…
Spring cleaning
Doing some spring cleaning of various online stuff: * Moved this to a new domain as a one-year trial * Imported my old Tumblr (yeah, I had one ...) * Try out TinyLetter for the monthly updates *…
Fin
This pome will now be neatly blended elsewhere: as part of a general “consolidate all the things!” spring cleaning exercise, I’ve imported all this into Wordpress, so you can go check these at http://…
(Untitled)
I realized if I actually want to write anything here other than the "monthly update" style stuff, I want to be able to write little snippets -- but also, I don't always want to add a tit…
Puzzles
I started on the first one when I had to stay at home for a few months when I broke my leg, and when that was done, I felt … “hey, I should do this again!” Then I got another one but I realized I did…