cc @rek ⌘ Read more

I find it’s curious that the tail recursive implementation of fib is smaller than the non tail-recursive. Is that normal? ⌘ Read more

A bunch of different approaches to FizzBuzz

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/n-ways-to-fizzbuzz-in-clojure/index.html ⌘ Read more

Sail to the middle of absolutely nowhere, and you can be sure that someone is going to row up to your boat and talk your ears off about the latest news drama happening in the city. ⌘ Read more

“Pagans looked to the natural world for meaning. Christian identity, on the other hand, was manifest in human-made consecrated structures.” ⌘ Read more

” Needless to say, almost all the funding goes to the alchemists, who, in their effort to make gold from cheap base materials, at least attack a problem of the highest social relevance, viz. enable the government to finance its wars without inflicting poverty on the people. The chemists are derided because none of their work has contributed anything to the central problem of gold-making.”

[https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1041.html](https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/E … ⌘ Read more

@jakintosh I just read your july 10th entry on your blog, and it got me thinking. Have you ever heard about the various parallel logic programming experiments? I think that it might be of interest here: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/the-joy-of-concurrent-logic-programming.txt ⌘ Read more

@jakintosh I just read your july 10th entry on your blog, and it got me thinking. Have you ever heard about the various parallel logic programming experiments? I think that it might be of interest here: http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/the-joy-of-concurrent-logic-programming.txt ⌘ Read more

*removes ancient version of python*

*breaks mercurial*

I don’t know what I expected ⌘ Read more

“More generally, be aware that relying on license terms is relying on the legal system, and by extension the government, even if nobody ever actually goes to court. Illegal codes, codes that condone or encourage illegal behavior, or codes that go against public policy, may not be enforceable through courts or other administrative bodies. If enforcing any part of your code through legal terms is patently impossible, other hooks may still be available.”

[https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/03/15/Ethical-Subcommons. … ⌘ Read more

Rek: “Do you think there’s anything to Maxime, Virgil and you, all being from the same place?”

Me at 3am

o__o ⌘ Read more

For Strange Loop, I want a shirt that reads

“You’ve made your bathtub catapult, now lie in it.” ⌘ Read more

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Criteria for a Good Language: It should obfuscate how the machine works. It should scale to address the version of computation that is shared among all of its users. It should have the enterty of your trust, it knows better than you what you need. Just ask of it what you want, it will figure it out for you. It is better because it is modern, and because it has libraries. ⌘ Read more

Assembly languages provide no inherent support for software engineering principles.

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http://archive.adaic.com/docs/reports/lawlis/r.htm ⌘ Read more

Peter Henderson’s 1982 paper “Purely Functional Operating Systems”

https://eighty-twenty.org/files/Henderson%20-%201982%20-%20Purely%20Functional%20Operating%20Systems.pdf ⌘ Read more

“I think a Defense Of Design is a sign of good stewardship. It shows that they think the design problems through carefully and are able (and willing!) to explain their decisions. “

https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/more-software-projects-need-defenses-of-design/ ⌘ Read more

Folks on the Uxn mailing list asked me to define a Uxntal “standard”, a kind of specification of how long valid tokens are, what is the maximum length for a label, what are capitalized label names for, and so on. I’ll be trying to draft this up this week. ⌘ Read more

It was nice to sail through internet signal for a night so we could catch up with emails, issues, and waste a bit of time online. Heading north around noon toward Hole-In-The-Wall. ⌘ Read more

Updated the Varvara docs with little examples for each device, based on feedback from people implementing their own emulators, and added links to test files that might help validating the various implementations.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/varvara.html ⌘ Read more

In Sim City 2000, if you start a new game and type “funds, your city should now receive approximately $1 million per a year. If you do it more than twice, your city will be plagued by natural disasters. ⌘ Read more

Each time Tiny Dynamine starts, in my head, I hear Cain’s voice like “Stay awhile, and listen”

#theStudio ⌘ Read more

I rejoyced after reading about list of websites that “best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.” I thought, finally! Something I can enjoy! None of the entries work on my computer. This is so classic. ⌘ Read more

First rainy day since may, it’s so nice to be washing off the salt off of everything. ⌘ Read more

I’ve been reading Orwell’s Homage To Catalonia, it’s excellent, I certainly didn’t expect it to bring to me to tears laughing in some parts, and being so awfully bleak in others.

#theLibrary ⌘ Read more

Cast off in a light rain, heading to Octopus Islands. ⌘ Read more

I love these long summer days living in remote inlets where we can spend our days reading and cooking. I haven’t been doing much else in the way of creative work other than completing the proof-reading of Rek’s manuscript for Wiktopher, and doing research for the upcoming Strange Loop talk.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/now.html ⌘ Read more

We tend to plan our night passages based on the phase of the moon, prefering full moon so we can see debris in the water. I found this little script to predict how much visibility we’ll get, it has been pretty reliable so far, maybe someone else finds this useful:

http://wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/moon.c.txt ⌘ Read more

I don’t have reliable connection to the internet at the moment and cannot handle instance onboarding, please get in touch with @somnius. ⌘ Read more

Not a fan of people who call anything other the primary source of income, a hobby. ⌘ Read more

Twice I got stung this week while walking in the woods, the first time by a common looking wasp that lives in holes in the ground, it hurt for about 4 days. Now two days ago, I got stung by a tiny black wasp without stripes, super painful, my ankle has doubled in size. If it had been in my neck, I’d be super dead.

Not really lucky with our little strolls lately. ⌘ Read more

@avi I know, I know. This wasn’t meant a joke at your expense, it just something that ran across my head when I read your message I got Brutaldon stuck in a weird mode right now and can’t directly reply to the thread for some reason. ⌘ Read more

“We’re well past the time when using Photoshop as a verb has had any relevance, we ought to be saying I will gimp t-“NO! You will not end this sentence. ⌘ Read more

Upcoming clearcutting woodart “WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLU-” ⌘ Read more

It almost looks like the loggers clearcutting that mountainside are trying to write a word. ⌘ Read more

“De quoi remplissent-ils, quand ils sont libres, leurs absurdes petits dimanches.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Terre des hommes ⌘ Read more

Big boat,

frail limbs,

hello rocks,

hello mansion. ⌘ Read more

She asked us if maybe we knew tools that could help with collaboration on presentation documents for low-bandwidth situations. And while of course we know a lot that could help, to add insult to injury, a handful of her students use chromebooks, which sets a hard limit the tools the class uses, the limit being google slides.

The accessibility push of google to put chromebooks into student’s hands, seems to have the effect of shifting the cost from buying the terminal, to paying the ISP. ⌘ Read more

We’re tied to a cliffside next to friends of ours, last night they pulled in and told us about how their summer has gone so far. They said something interesting on remote work, and how it is now more difficult than before.

They used to be able to work on the hook, answering student’s emails remotely, but now that everything is a video call, a remote desktop, a cloud app. The shift to remote work has made it harder for them to keep on working remotely. ⌘ Read more

data List a = Nil | Cons a (List a), sort of day ⌘ Read more

data List a = Nil | Cons a ( List a), sort of day ⌘ Read more

*squints at thumbnail*

Not sure if roman abacus, or plankalkul. ⌘ Read more

I have a really nice one where it’s Pythia overlayed on Swift’s engine(the machine described after landing from Laputa), to talk about Design for Descent. ⌘ Read more

I love making these collages of references for my slides, here’s one for Strange Loop 2023. ⌘ Read more