Monthly recap (Dec 2020)
Major updates * A stay-at-home end-of-year vacation * Lots of driving around or walking around locally Minor updates * A day trip to San Francisco (chocolates at Ghirardelli, having coffee ou…
Generally interesting links - Dec 2020
Science * Old teeth These human ancestors, who roamed different patches of Eurasia roughly 1.77 million and 800,000 years ago, respectively, share a claim to fame: Their fossilized teeth harbor…
A time of transition
I've been at Confluent for a year and half now, and it was fun in many ways, but I've decided upon a change, and I'm joining Sigma Computing next week. Another instance where I was lookin…
Human Mental Games
Was watching Queen’s Gambit today (up to four episodes now), and realized how different the attitude to chess (and perhaps Go too) would’ve been back then. Today, in a post-Deep Blue, post-Alpha Go,…
Nostalgia corner: Urban Assault
Many games have come and gone, and I haven’t actually played anything for about five years now (!), and looking back, I can barely recall most of what I played. Some names that do stand out though (I…
Generally interesting links - Nov 2020
Computing * On making less software * On the microprocessor to the personal computer * On how there might be a lot of efficiencies up for grabs right now * On Gopher and Gemini (i.e. as alternati…
Monthly recap (Nov 2020)
Major updates * Tara turned six !! Minor updates * Lots of social trips * Ergonomic improvements (more on this soon) * Sleep schedule has not been great * Visited Barnes and Noble (after a ye…
The weirdness and awesomeness of long-form YouTube
I found myself listening to this recently: From the description: This is the ambient electromagnetic signal of our Sun and Neptune which have been combined with each other and then deepened and smoo…
Turtle graphics
Discovered the PythonTurtle library, reminded me of LOGO a long time ago (!) A sample session: $ bpython bpython version 0.18 on top of Python 3.7.6 /usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.7 >>>…
Monthly Recap (Oct 2020)
Major updates * Gradual “actual physical school” transition for Tara * Halloween! Minor updates * Introducing card games to Tara: War, Go Fish! * Misc maintenance * replacing hood and r…
Generally interesting links - Oct 2020
Computing * A sobering reality: “the world runs on Excel, Java 8, and Sharepoint” * A trend toward the end of open source * Something cool: Pharo and the “Glamorous Toolkit” * Next, the “programm…
On Airtable and Numbers
I tried out Airtable for a year, for a simple personal spreadsheet that I’ve been keeping for a few years now. It’s slick, and quick to enter data, but in the end I’ve decided to go back to Numbers.…