General Interesting Links: April 2018
Bunch of random stuff that I liked this month: * Crazy tall palm trees in Colombia (this one made the picture above) * A “golden oldie” by Bill Joy (of Sun) on the future of technology (from 18 yea…
The un-happened future
Regular readers may have noticed my fondness for historical advertising (of a very specific kind). Here are some old advertisements by Bohn Aluminum that I came across, and here is a bigger list. This…
Starting new C++ projects
I wanted to have a playground to try out new idioms and concepts (hah!) in C++, and it became an excuse to figure out what the right way (in my opinion) would be, given the enormous range of choices e…
Monthly recap (April 2018)
Major updates: * Weekend trip to Monterey * Having fun at work :-) * Kite flying with Tara Minor updates: * Couple of birthday parties for Tara * Met some old friends after many years! * Anno…
Programming/Math/Science roundup: April 2018
* David Patterson does a wide-ranging interview on computer architecture (spoiler: RISC!) * Something about various extrasolar planets being “evenly spaced on a log scale” * There’s more than one b…
Old Lisp programs
I found an old chess program that Mark Watson (somehow I can't find the original link anymore, my Gist mirroring it is here). I was wondering what it would take to get it to run again, and I was s…
General Interesting Links: March 2018
Bunch of random stuff I liked this month: * A huge inspiration: as the title says, “An 81 year old Commodore Amiga Artist” … And she bought it for the first time 30 years ago! * A paean to text adv…
Monthly recap (March 2018)
Major updates: * None really (!) * Caught up with a few movies that were on the “to-watch” list, just “the usual” stuff Minor updates: * Mostly busy with work * Got myself a new fountain pen *…
Programming/Math/Science roundup: March 2018
Interesting stuff from last month (not a lot?): * Entanglement isn’t just across space, but across time too(!) * There is a new type of ice, occurring in the inclusions of diamonds formed hundreds…
On personal technology
I’ve slowly standardized on a few apps I use all the time; I was talking to someone about this and realized it might be generally useful to someone else (if nothing else, to save a few years of lookin…
Common Lisp nits/tips/libraries: Iteration
Background Every once in a while, I see a mention of how Common Lisp really does support “non-functional” styles, and then cl:loop is trotted in, with attendant examples that make your eyes glaze ove…
General interesting links: February 2018
Some random links from last month: * I read less news and more long-form articles these days, so here are a couple of the more politically-oriented ones that I found insightful:- “Why we’re underest…