command center

Towards the end of 2014, in need of pleasant distraction, I began writing, in Go, my second pseudo-APL, called Ivy.

On Bloat On Bloat The link below holds the slides from a talk I gave last year for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's annual tech conference.

This is my closing talk (video) from the GopherConAU conference in Sydney, given November 10, 2023, the 14th anniversary of Go being launched as an open source project.

In May 2009, Google hosted an internal "Design Wizardry" panel, with talks by Jeff Dean, Mike Burrows, Paul Haahr, Alfred Spector, Bill Coughran, and myself.

I studied physics in university, and at one point asked a professor if I should learn German, because it seemed all the key texts of early 20th century physics were written by German-speaking physicists in German journals such as Annalen der Physik.

Color blindness is an inaccurate term.

(Another resurrected post from the my old Google+ stream, which appeared on or about Dec 6, 2011.)

(Another resurrected post from the my old Google+ stream, which appeared on or about Sep 4, 2012.

(Here's the next resurrected post, this time from Jun 8, April 30, 2012.)

(Here's another resurrected post from April 30, 2012.

A while back, Google Plus (google+?)

There has been recent discussion about the reproducibility of scientific results, with some unflattering conclusions.

Someone at work asked about this trip report I wrote long ago.

A recent dig through some old papers uncovered this CERN memo from 1973 describing controls for the Proton Synchrotron being built at the time.

The Upspin project uses a custom package, upspin.io/errors, to represent error conditions that arise inside the system.

Here follows the original "manifesto" from late 2014 proposing the idea for what became Upspin.

Drawing Copyright ©2017 Renee French This week marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of Go.

I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that room: Out of about 40 people, about a third were women.

Two long-buried caches of photographs came to light last year.

I've been trying on and off to find a nice way to deal with setting options in a Go package I am writing.

The other day I was talking with a friend (yes, I have friends) about the way communication of ideas has changed.

Some days, things just don't work out.

Here is the text of the talk I gave at the Go SF meeting in June, 2012.

Whenever I see code that asks what the native byte order is, it's almost certain the code is either wrong or misguided.

An actress acquaintance of mine—let's call her Esmerelda—once said, "I can't imagine being anything except an actress."