A Random Walk Through Ideaspace

It’s been a while since I blogged, so long that the old version of middleman I was using could not run in any version of Ruby that mise could install on my machine and moving off middleman seemed less work than dealing with that.

For a long time adding multiple monitors to my laptop has JustWorked™ and have been a bit complacent about assuming that plugging into a random projector would be fine, but recently a VGA projector attached to the mini-display port was not detected (I thi…

For a while I have been meaning to play some modern indie platformers from Steam (like Super Meat Boy, Braid and Limbo).

I have made the SICP Distilled site public.

I was re-reading the first two chapters of SICP at the weekend as I am starting to prepare SICP Distilled and I was pleased to see: The value of expressing programs as sequence operations is that this helps us make program designs that are modular, that i…

I launched a Kickstarter project yesterday to do an idiosyncratic tour of the best of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs in Clojure Please sign up if you are interested (below is copied from Kickstarter) SICP?

This is my (month late) day 200 update of my second 101 Goals in 1001 days Completed 43 - Build a robot Did my raspirobot at the weekend at NodeBots of London. 59 - Finish 4clojure Finished the final few over Christmas.

I was pleased to be speaking at the Clojure Exchange recently (at least it was recently when I started writing this blog post).

In the middle of the year I set myself another 101 Goals in 1001 days and added into my calender reminders to do updates every 100 days (this was due October 19th actually) Completed 4 - Read Beowulf I finally read all of Seamus Heaney’s translation, shor…

I had some fun doing it last year so I thought I would have a go again.