Personal Media Summary: March 2016
Some interesting stuff I read/saw this month: * I knew the Daily Show was over when Jon Stewart left, some people1 just took longer to realize that * I’ve been a fan of ASMR for a while, I’m happy…
Personal Media Summary: February 2016
(Image credit: The New York Times) (Meta: Delayed by a couple of weeks because I was on vacation! That’s also why there isn’t much here or in next month’s post) So, miscellanous finds last month:…
Monthly recap: March 2016
The month was a blur, mostly because three whole weeks was vacation time! Tara had her longest travel ever (yet), with a seven-hour flight followed by a ten-hour flight to get from San Francisco to Ne…
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Most programmers are still locked into the idea of making a program out of a large pile of tiny files containing pieces of programs Tim Daly, “Clojure In Small Pieces”…
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The idea of “mostly functional programming” is unfeasible. It is impossible to make imperative programming languages safer by only partially removing implicit side effects. Leaving one kind of effect…
Be careful what you click for ...
This from an article in Verge on how the App Store is "more like a lottery" now, though an observation in the comments section shows the focus on apps is really too narrow, it's all of m…
Monthly recap: February 2016
February went by really fast. Went to a bunch of places, ate a bunch of stuff, but it's all a blur. Tara turned 15 months (so, one-twelfth of the distance to 15 years), and can spout little mono…
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The Internet isn’t from 1995. It’s from 1975. In 1995, we learned that a network beats a mainframe. Now, we’ve learned that a 2015 mainframe beats a 1975 network. http://urbit.org/blog…
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a bunch of crap-ass languages that still had the exact same abstractions as the underlying machine Steve Yegge, __Math Every Day"_…
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An argument can be made that the contemporary mainstream understanding of objects is but a pale shadow of the original idea. Further, it can be argued that the mainstream understanding of objects is,…
Personal Media Summary: January 2016
A bunch of miscellaneous stuff I came across in January 2016: * Cool archaeological stuff still happens, as seen here in this unearthing of a city that was “the Hong Kong of Egypt” during most of th…
Monthly recap: January 2016
Can't believe the first month of 2016 is already over. The big highlight (for me) is that I started running again, trying to keep it once a week on Sunday mornings. The current goal is to do a 14…