The little wallet that could ...
Recently became _aware_, for a few moments, of the wallet in my pocket. I used to have a big, thick one I carried around everywhere. One day, I got sick of it and looked into card wallet instead. I…
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I didn't know "Dark Academia" was a thing, but it seems like a source of optimism.…
Generally interesting links - Feb 2021
(A short list this time) * On the “insane biology of the Octopus” (there’s always an Octopus link here, right?) * Somewhat extremist (in a minimalist sense) take on how to write for the web to outl…
Watching Adam Curtis
The first time I watched an Adam Curtis documentary was “Century of the self” about a decade ago. After that, I have, on-and-off, tried to watch everything by him that I could get my hand on. Not all…
A decade (nearly) of Lamy
I’ve had this pen for about nine years now, which is longer than I’ve had my laptop, or my phone, or my current pair of jeans, or my bed, or the tv on the wall, or the lamp next to me, or … you get th…
All the speeches, right ...
(I have a bad feeling this is going to be the most frequent kind of post here, but for now, let's roll …)…
Rust, Go, Clojure
This was a funny quote: Many people try to compare Rust to Go, but this is flawed. Go is an ancient board game that emphasizes strategy. Rust is more appropriately compared to Chess, a board game foc…
Monthly Recap (Jan 2021)
Major updates * Well, a new year and a new adventure for me at Sigma Computing (bit more on that soon) Minor updates * Played a bunch with silly-but-fun air-pump "rockets" * Switched…
Soylent emeralds is made of ... dragons?
I said it but I didn't do it, but here is one of those .... anomalies I mentioned earlier. Again, who is this for? It's bizarre. But it exists. (There are many more, I just haven't taken…
Generally Interesting Links - Jan 2021
Science * The Greenland crater (this is old though, before the discovery of the second one) * I had no idea about the Neolithic bottleneck * On “Mycelial Connections” While it’s true that humans…
Scala -> Rust
Over the weekend, I took a first stab at transforming my prior little cave-generation toy (https://abacusnoir.blog/2020/08/02/cave-generation/) from Scala to Rust. Old repo: https://bitbucket.org/aga…
Declaring “watch-later” bankruptcy
I’m sure a lot of people get to this point … it’s a form of procrastination, clicking on the tempting little Watch Later mini-clock-face. “Of course I’ll watch you”, I say to the little thumbnail. F…