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Rorschach oil stain…
Just do it
(Old draft) I remember coming across Allegro as a graphics library for games (10? 15?) years ago. My impression at the time was that it was too simple, and “real games” would require more sophistica…
Read-Aloud
Have a good pipeline of night-time reading lined up:…
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Past and Future, interrupted
From this Substack post In Margaret Mead’s understanding of cultural transmission between generations, it appears that we may also be living in a pre-figurative culture, where the past is not the gui…
Nix is (still) unusable
I first tried out Nix in 2018. The second round -- I went through "Nix Pills", which helped get a better idea of what was going on -- was in 2020. I heard NixOS getting some popularity (yo…
Following the war
I had been watching this channel for several months now. It goes into incredible detail and truly highlights the scope and horror of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Of course, there are biases etc that…
A chatGpt explainer
(found this in my drafts from Aug 2, 2023) A surprisingly good book, it explains things well and graphically -- don't be thrown off by its use of Mathematica!…