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…
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…