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IP Owners have more and more promoted a rental culture in terms of IP.

In some ways typeclasses and types are the Haskell implementation of the idea of “It’s turtles all the way down!”

The “socratic approach” to teaching is to ask students pointed questions to lead students to discover things for themselves by thinking about the question and its possible answers.

While it may be absolutely great to be surprised by an audience reaction while performing a theatrical production, being surprised by something happening in production is not great.

I would consider myself a skeptic when it comes to vibe coding and the use of LLM’s.

Feedback is often underestimated.

A brief discussion of some obvious observations that are routinely forgotten.

I am afraid that more and more people are following the outline of agile without understanding WHY the practices are important.

I’ve been working on writing PEG expressions with Rosie Pattern Language to help people to search Elixir code bases for certain things.

I suppose I will sound like a luddite but so far I’ve found AI to be more of a hindrance than a help!

A few people when discussing side work by developers trot out the argument “No one asks a surgeon if he or she does side work!”

I’ve started a newsletter called “The Impractical Engineer”.

Extending my use of racket to allow my shell scripts to be parameterized.

Elon Musk and the other DOGE folks might learn a lesson from history.

I decided to give Codeberg a whirl.

It’s sometimes helpful to people to have an analogy to help understand the magnitude of something.

Due to the inability of a previously invited speaker to attend, I’m filling in at MITechCon for a session.

In spite of lots of good advice to the contrary, rather than keeping my mouth closed and being thought a fool I opened it and removed any doubt.

Using racket in a shell script to automate some repetitive commands.

My responses for Exercises 80 and 81 (Chapter 5.8) of How to Design Programs More…

My response for Exercises 72 and 73 (Chapter 5.6) of How to Design Programs More…

My answers for the exercises in Chapter 4.6 Exercise 58 of How to Design Programs.

My answers for the exercises in Chapter 2 Section 1 of How to Design Programs.

Another exercise from Chapter 1 of How to Design Programs.

Working through How To Design Programs; here’s my first crack at one of the first exercises!

I’m going to be speaking at Ann Arbor Tech Convergence.

Announcing the free Detroit Tech Watch book club to help technologists step up their technical game.

A recipe for avoiding repeated definitions in Elixir modules!

Using racket in a shell script allows a developer to basically use a lot of the same code across platforms.

There are a few things in terms of technology that I’ve had my eye upon.

Yeah I want to write some stuff again and I don’t want to let procrastination keep me from writing.