2024
Something I've been saying recently is: "I don't know what's going to happen this year, but whatever happens, it's going to be unprecedented!" To put things charitably: We’…
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Looking within the lens
As seen at "Museo Camera"…
Missing the web
From a recent HackerNews discussion about search engines, some harsh truth about the big shift in the last two decades: >It is only more recently that they seem to have given up. They haven't…
Peak 5-minute books
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…