My current list of pens
Mostly just for my future self, would be interesting to see how this changes in (say) five years. 1. Lamy Safari (x2, oldest one is from 2012 !) 2. TWSBI Eco (Fine and Extra-Fine) 3. Faber-Castell…
Micro
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Library haul (Jun 2019)
Guess we got a bit greedy there ...…
On the relevance of search results
Something darkly funny: was reading something with my daughter and came across something to do with gazelles and how they dance1, and thought, “hey, let’s look up videos of gazelles on Youtube! I’m su…
Current library haul
Mini-Library haul
Wondering if I should switch to some more structured way of recording all these ... would make for a nice database to look back on later!…
Fin
This pome will now be neatly blended elsewhere: as part of a general “consolidate all the things!” spring cleaning exercise, I’ve imported all this into Wordpress, so you can go check these at http://…
(Untitled)
I realized if I actually want to write anything here other than the "monthly update" style stuff, I want to be able to write little snippets -- but also, I don't always want to add a tit…
On syntax, in Haskell and Lisp
Yes, but not so much simplicity of syntax. I’m misled here by a superficial resemblance between the cultures of Haskell and Lisp. Both cultures are obsessed with mechanically processing code, and ther…
Nit-picking languages
It’s that (too frequent) time again … when I anxiously (and full of fickleness) wonder what language to increase familiarity with. The last year, I learnt quite a bit of common lisp, or atleast enoug…
The universal type
CL-USER> (setf universe (find-class 't)) #<BUILT-IN-CLASS T> CL-USER> (typep universe universe) T View On WordPress…
A graphical Repl for Lisp
A graphical Repl for Lisp Finally found one of the things I was looking for! GTFL is a (ql:quickload "gtfl") call away. See this pdf to find out more. Meanwhile, here is an example:…
Lisp, CLOS and Math
Lisp, CLOS and Math What, you say, mathematicians just have to use Haskell ?? Stop right there, and read this. Technically, there’s nothing new to see here at all. Lisp is high-level and low-level.…