Monthly Curations: March 2020
* Can you believe this talk was delivered in 1995? 1995?! We’ll get there soon… * One person’s scientific method to improving as a programmer. Impressive. Don’t think I could do it. * Either hilari…
Programming
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Monthly Curations: February 2020
* Datomic overview * An attempt at Typed lisp * Another look at Guix * “Programming like Kent Beck” * Report on the 20th anniversary of SBCL * On tests as code * A humorous look at how programm…
Monthly Curations: January 2020
* A mix of parody and seriousness, on Haskell and Ocaml: take 1 & take 2 * What’s new in Scala 3 * A look at Raku (and some myths) * On Paradise Lost * On math vs simulation * I might have p…
Monthly Curations: December 2019
* The title says it all: Running a bakery on Emacs and Postgresql (!!) * If anyone remembers Terry Davis, a BBC episode of The Digital Human about him, his life, his work (it’s one of those truly bi…
Monthly Curations: November 2019
* Applying the lessons of the Golang scheduler to the Tokio scheduler in Rust * Speeding up Nixpkgs by avoiding subshells * Pessimism about engineering software * The Racket programming language i…
Monthly Curations: October 2019
* Leo talking about making games in Common Lisp * Moving log data at massive (10x LHC) scale * Habits of good software design(ers) * An OS being built for … after the apocalypse * Quirky selectio…
Monthly Curations: August 2019
* Wondering whether Perk 6 should be named as a totally different language * A look at “typed Lisp” * Bob Martin on “why Clojure” * Rakuten And Egison * In defense of stable platforms * And now,…
Monthly Curations - July 2019
(yep, not a lot this month …) * On MonoRepos * On the purpose of programming * Remembering the fifth generation computing project would have been shocked to know it came from ordinary commodity m…
On Kafka, Confluent, and … Clojure
As I’m absorbing more of the general flavor of event-streaming and everything around it (… in the beginning was the log …), I keep gettin a bit of deja vu and realized that there’s an uncanny resembla…
Monthly Curations - Jun 2019
* Compiler comparisons: C2 vs Clang (JIT vs AOT), then C2 vs GraalVM (two JITters) * Somewhat funny: The evolution of a Scala programmer * Transitioning from “Next” to “Swift” for Apple * Nice sur…
Rediscovering an older self-version
I've started a new blog or a new online journal so many times, some private, some public, that I've really lost track of all of them. This is mildly complicated because some of them were pseud…
Monthly Curations: May 2019
* Speculation on “next-paradigm programming languages” * On the “struggles of an open-source maintainer” (by the maintainer of Redis) * Stretching the computational metaphor too far … * An overvie…