Smári McCarthy

Bala responded to my previous critique of his post over on Startup Iceland.

TL;DR: Bala Kamallakharan’s most recent article is rhetorical nonsense that’s riddled with internal contradictions, and structured in a way that looks like it’s steelmanning the “Yes” argument, but is actually playing a nasty little game by having the arg…

A Labeled Property Graph is a collection of nodes and edges, such that each node has a label and a value, where the value is an edge relationship to another node.

Welp.

For a few blissful months in 2024, I lived in Curcaçao, an island roughly 60km north of Venezuela.

Last year, upon an unintentional nerd snipe from a friend, I spent a weekend writing a pretty performant XML library in Jai.

My reading list of 2024 is marked by not having had much time to read, or rather, my reading being mostly in the form of code and papers.

I’ve been programming for long enough to be righteously cantankerous about a lot of things.

It’s election season here in Iceland!

Israel has begun its second land war of the last 12 months by invading Lebanon.