Egregore
I've been "on the internet" for about two-and-a-half decades now, and ... I like to think that I've seen it all. Still, these are strange times. Neologisms abound. Confusion reigns.…
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Gin and tonic with grapefruit…
A quote for many moments
“And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher” From Moby Dick…
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Avoiding conflating simplicity and size, in programming languages: arrdem.com/2022/07/0...…
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From 1997, Python presented as the "best among 5": web.archive.org/web/20040...…
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A pretty good "Scheme primer": spritely.institute/static/pa...…
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Yup, we watched it this weekend, had some weird buts but pretty enjoyable overall.…
In praise of used books
I have spoken on you of how I used to frequent a store nearby, in Mountain View (“Book Buyers“), and how they relocated away a few years ago (more recently, they shut down that location, and sold of i…
Spending time, sharing time
When you hear the phrase “lost technology”, you tend to think of something mysterious from millennia ago. However, as I discovered from “Einstein’s clocks, Poincaré’s maps”, even just a century ago,…
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Playing with “marbling paint” with my daughter…