Monthly recap: July 2022
Major update(s) * An "almost forty" birthday party for me and Shivi * Car trouble (more on this later) Minor update(s) * Found a new used books store in Menlo Park * "Family boa…
Everything getting older
Food for thought > The Onion's Our Dumb Century is a classic satirical look at the twentieth century, of course, but it's also a nice tour through the American zeitgeist over that time. On…
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Spectacularly contrarian take: "Use one server" > When you experience growing pains, and get close to the limits of your current servers, today’s conventional wisdom is to go for shardin…
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Wordle 412 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩…
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Reading right now ……
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Two approaches to (web)publishing The “just use Fossil” approach is particularly novel!…
Public art in a surprising place
Hilton Waikoloa’s art collection > In pursuit of that goal, Hemmeter traveled to China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and beyond. He spent at least a year traveling and shipping artwork back t…
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Need to clean up storage :-|…
Books on Software Complexity
(from this HN thread) If only all posters collected their responses into a spreadsheet like this one did Here is the summary post (my preferences in bold): From my perspective, the top "must-r…
Language comparison
Came across this pros/cons table recently (some un-named company, when deciding on micro-service language-of-choice): Mostly agree, except that * We do have generics in Go (as of 1.18) and "..…
Extension Languages
Found this old post by Jon Skinner on why SublimeText went with Python. If you're building an application, then your users will get much more out of it if you given them a plugin API. For Sublime…
To CIEL and beyond
There have been a lot of "modern" libraries within Common Lisp, but there isn't a coherent way to "look at" them together. So the impression of CL as this "frozen in time…