New Schematic

Using the GitHub mobile app as a free write-only blyg fragment (blygment?)

In honor of Jack “The King” Kirby’s birthday last month (he’d be 109 years old), here’s krackle.js, a one-line script tag to give every click on every page that signature Kirby Krackle.

A couple of papercuts when getting started with gpui, the UI framework powering Zed.

Not just for steers I’ve long admired designers.

This past week, my youngest decided to start crawling.

NB: This is implemented on the PaperMod theme I was curious about adding privacy-sensitive metrics to my blog.

When I first read these on Herzog’s 80th birthday, something struck me: these rules could be applied not only to his brand of filmmaking—as instrumental and impactful as it was to my worldview—but also to the endeavor of a startup.

This year’s theme: On the lookout for knuckle-busters Knuckle-busters being those jammed up spots that resist any movement, but block all progress.

There are many kinds of technical velocity debt 1.

Δv Δv, or delta-v, is what keeps orbital engineers up at night.

It was 1999.

Methods on built-ins Hashmap .entry — Used for in-place manipulation of the value for a corresponding key, scores.entry(team_id) .or_default — Insert an empty default value if the key is not present, returning a mutable reference, scores.entry(team_id).or…

A guide Introduction In the oft-quoted punchline, “Specialization is for insects,” we nod our heads in agreement.

When I first started using Claude with my Nix-managed development environment, I ran into an interesting issue.

A stack-based virtual machine, written in Python, for WebAssembly Purely a learning tool, as I’ve found the best way to learn something is to crack it open, look around inside, and then build a smaller version of the same thing, from its component pieces.

Default On chases doing.

Jan. 15, My Neighbor Totoro Jan. 21, Transporter 2† Jan. 26, The Eternals Jan. 29, Prisoners of the Ghostland Feb. 18, Ron’s Gone Wrong Feb. 26, 300† Feb. 27, Pig Mar. 6, The Batman Mar. 6, The King’s Man Mar. 11, Free Guy Mar. 12, Army of Thieves Mar. 18,

Jan. 26, Consider Phlebas, Iain M.

After moving to a new state recently, I’ve started collecting my now thoughts on the go.

Learning in public A weekly-ish livestream session where I read a CS paper, annotate it, and take notes — join me on Twitch!

Jan. 1, Rampage Jan. 1, Fast and Furious 7† Jan. 3, Blood Simple† Jan. 8, Alita Battle Angel Jan. 9, Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Jan. 10, Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back† Jan. 15, Baby Driver† Jan. 16, Birds of Prey and the Emancipation of Harley…

Jan 17: Agency, William Gibson 🥈 Jan 30: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani 🥈 Jan 31: Absolute Carnage, Cates and Stegman Feb ??

Or, Everything That Had to Happen, Is Happening, and Will Happen When You Submit a Form A year-long course from the fine folks who run https://teachyourselfcs.com, but more in-depth, more accountable, and more over Zoom.

In the much-vaunted style of literate programming, here’s an emacs-lisp function I wrote recently.

Eventually working around high-productivity professionals like John Carmack made me realize that if you want to excel, then you have to work hard and focus the whole time.

Pittsburgh, Frank Santoro The Churn, James S.

Recently, I had occasion to complete some coding exercises.

For the last six months or so, I’ve been working on building out the infrastructure for our machine-learning service at work.

The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Chögyam Trungpa Garlandia, Lorenzo Mattotti and Jerry Kramsky Bingo Love, Tee Franklin and Joy San and Jenn St-Onge Play Bigger: How Pirates, Dreamers, and Innova…

After reading about the Mozilla Foundation and Coil’s announcement, I decided I wanted to try an experiment and add a Coil micropayment meta tag to my blog.

They say that code should read like well-written prose, and that code is written to be read by people—it’s only incidental that machines do something with whatever we create.

A couple years ago my friend Trevor and I went to look at the Apple garage.

this post is in reference to Slack/Hipchat/Hangouts Direct Messages, not Dungeon Masters An all-too-common approach to communication I’ve seen is DM’s for any number of subjects which should be public: how to set up a server, a discussion about an archite…

Or, the differences between append, cons, & list from sicp 2.26: Suppose we define x and y to be two lists: (define x (list 1 2 3)) (define y (list 4 5 6)) What’s the output of the following?

This blog is now featuring has had RSS all along.

As the next step in the exploration of the ideas behind the Dada Photo Booth, Adam and I reworked the project for showing at the Museum of Human Achievement during the 2018 East Austin Studio Tour.

⚠️ This project has been superceded by my participation in the Bradfield Computer Science Intensive ⚠️ Following the curriculum suggested at Teach Yourself CS, I’ve started the necessary work of filling in the gaps of my knowledge.

tl;dr Download the Symbola font and install it; using, for instance, the included Font Book application on macOS.

We did what we always do when there’s a problem without a clear solution: we waited. from “Toward Go 2”

install istanbul & codeclimate-test-reporter in your dev dependencies: npm install --save-dev istanbul codeclimate-test-reporter add to circle.yml: general: artifacts: - "coverage" test: post: - CODECLIMATE_REPO_TOKEN=$CODECLIMATE_REPO_TOKEN .

Background Here at OwnLocal, we’ve built lots of Rails apps and added lots of Ruby code to those apps.

When writing tests for a Rake task at work, I came across invoke and execute as two different ways for calling a specific task.

project page | slides Review of what I learned programming with Go for an art exhibition.

An Inscrutable Representation of Yourself tumblr | source code, v1 | source code, Electron client and server developer, artistic collaborator Designed and developed as a final project for dadageek’s course on creating generative art using Processing.

Combined my blog with my portfolio, and got them all hosted on my own business.

With the recent announcement that Vine will be getting shuttered, I’m reminded of the uncertainty that all free web-based services face.

I’m an engineer who enjoys solving problems.

brew install go worked well, as expected.

Learning about the random function in Processing is evoking the same feeling I had when I first learned about HTML’s <blink> tag.

In 1996 Keith Shafer and several others proposed a solution to the problem of broken URLs.