Sammy's Blog

When I tell people about the emacs web browser, their first reaction is 'Wait emacs has a web browser?!'

I applied to give a talk this year at Clojure Conj.

I think we all know the answer to this: bad incentives.

Now that deft 0.2.0 is released, I figure it's a good time to talk about what I built, and why I built it.

I finished reading On the Edge last week, and it was bad.

I recently released deft, a Clojure library that defines types and protocols using plain maps, and so, to take it for a spin, I wrote the game of chess in Clojure.

Today I'm releasing deft!

if ur reading this i can publish to my blog w/rss. im using org-rss-export-to-rss with some very simiple tooling. i thought about using hugo but idk it seemed too heavy and i kinda like the minimalist feel. im optimistic that hugo will be better when i set

When I got my first DSLR, I opened up the settings menu, and found it loaded with options: active-d lighting, vignette control, auto-bracketing, ambient lighting, and much more.

Most people I know really don't like Citizens United.

This morning I woke up, a little on the later side, and didn't have anything important to do.

Cancer treatment is something I've thought about a lot recently, and the more I've studied it, the more I've seen that it's an interesting and complex problem.

In the last section we looked into what types of cancer treatments are out there, and, from a research perspective, what areas hopefully have the most low hanging fruit.

In this section, we now look at the specific drugs we would need to put the ideas in Part 2 into practice.

The impeachment trial, as it stands, is a little bit of a mess, with what feels like many muddled and ever-changing accusations, against a president who keeps doing new things to be accused of.

Oh man, if you thought the electoral college was bad, you're in for a real treat.

Ok, wrong might be a little bit too severe, but at the very least unfairly biased.

Camera lenses are expensive.

Every year, sometime around the holidays, I splurge on one really nice thing for myself.

Like any political agenda, modern monetary theory isn't perfectly specified, and people often tailor its definition to their own ambitions.

Charles Duhigg was a reporter for the New York Times, and you can feel it in his writing.

I played my first game of Wordle this week, and I got in 4!