2023 - To Read

Introducing Qdrant Summer of Code 2024 program. GSoC alternative.

Review about V programming language in 2023

Learn how one of the biggest tech companies played a major role in the reason many people stopped using RSS feeds

For exploring algebraic effects, safe shared mutability, and other novel features

As restaurants struggle with staffing and inflation, fast food has an advantage in the post-pandemic dining landscape.

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Dean Blunt - Hackney Commercial Waste 2022-2023.0:00 - 4am in Berlin1:32 - all the things u could be now if I was yr mother3:49 - Are we good05:58 - bali and...

Below is an excerpt from my just-republished 2019 Volkswagen Atlas Review detailing my singular encounter with capital-r Road Rage in the entirety of my ~year driving for Uber/Lyft. My only authentic Road Rage experience in some 5000 miles of rideshare driving occurred on All Hallow’s Eve when I stopped - no more illegally than usual - on the opposite corner from a popular downtown Mexican restaurant called The Nap with hazards and all courtesy interior lights shining.

I think by hand. It’s easier for me to write my first drafts on a tablet and type them up afterwards. I can’t do this with code, though. Here’s me scrawling out a python function as fast as possible: That took three times longer to write than type. Something about code being optimized for legibility and IDE usage and lame stuff like that. I still like the idea of writing code, though, so I looked for a language that wasn’t just easy to write, but benefited from being hand-written.

Note: I’m coming from this from the perspective of a J programmer. Maybe K or Dyalog or something solved this already, I don’t know, but I would be pretty surprised if they did. The more I work with an APL, the more I notice a serious problem. Not the weird symbols, you get used to that pretty fast. Not the write-only aspect, that’s annoying but can be solved with a good syntax highlighter.

Have a tweet: img {border-style: groove;} I have no idea if Pony is making the right choice here, I don’t know Pony, and I don’t have any interest in learning Pony.1 But this tweet raised my hackles for two reasons: It’s pretty smug. I have very strong opinions about programming, but one rule I try to follow is do not mock other programmers.2 Programming is too big and I’m too small to understand everything.

People keep claiming that modern OOP languages aren’t “really OOP” because they don’t follow Alan Kay’s definition of “OOP”. I can see the logic here, even if I disagree the conclusion. More recently I’ve seen people start claiming that Kay invented objects entirely. This is factually incorrect. Alan Kay did not invent objects. They come from Simula, which the Smalltalk-72 manual cites as a major inspiration (pg 117). The famous 1981 Byte magazine issue that popularized Smalltalk and OOP explicitly says “the fundamental idea of objects, messages, and classes came from SIMULA.

Intro to how grids are used in graphic design.

In a course of computer science it is common to study the hierarchy of formal languages, grammars, automata and Turing machines. I wonder what is the relationship of these objects with formal syste...

If you’re studying for coding interviews, I recommend Python, which is a shame because I am a Ruby programmer. The only major drawback to using Ruby is that ...

Out in March, Lost Paradise: Blissed Out Breakbeat Hardcore 1991​-​94 was compiled by Tammo Hesselink and label founder Sam Purcell.

Dream Machines: Electronic Music in Britain From Doctor Who to Acid House is out in April via Omnibus Press.

Soap School wasn’t its real name. It had no name, no accreditation. It didn’t award a degree. But it did hold out hope of a well remunerated career in the wonderful world of soap operas. And here’s…

When Nas described himself as the “most critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner / Best storyteller / Thug narrator / My styles greater” on his song “Hate Me Now” (1999), he was foretelling somet…

Illustration by Krishna Bala Shenoi. Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. It’s a podcast where people sound like people. N…

Actor, author, and director Jesse Eisenberg demystifies the role of anxiety and self-doubt in leadership.

The Brain Computer Interface program at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital develops technology to allow disabled children to use their minds to move and play.