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…
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“The Hajj trail” Well made online rpg!…
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The backstory of Marcel the shell…
Plotting diamonds
More Wolfram Mathematica fun, when my daughter wanted to make a "diamond shape" in "hot pink". Here's the "source of truth": And here's the rendering in Mathema…
Geometrick T-shirts
I had a T-shirt with a certain pattern that was fading out. I didn't know at the time that this had a name, and later learned it was a geometrical pattern that had certain interesting connections.…
Trains
In a bit of a grim co-incidence, soon after I wrote this earlier post, I find that in the space of a month, there have already been two people who were killed when hit by the Caltrain in Mountain View…
Inferior is Better
> Software that is better in principle comes with everything you need. Software that is inferior does not, and someone has to fill it in. They do it by building tools. > Every third-party “tool…