Jach's Recent Posts

I was dusting off some old scripts the other day and thought let's check how ABCL is these days... unfortunately the last stable release is still from 2023, at 1.9.3.

This is just one of my silly "cocktail party" trains of thought (I've never been to a cocktail party).

For some reason I occasionally think about programming pedagogy even though I don't teach anyone and I'm not in any hurry to write a book about it.

I don't usually do goals, since I think I won't succeed in them anyway.

It hit me just now that I've been programming for fun since 2004-2005, aka 20 years...

I've had this thought for many years, but seeing yet another instance of someone randomly going crazy makes me think about it more frequently again.

Every programming language community seems to have a subset of itself that is just overly concerned with envy for another language, whether it's the features or parts of the ecosystem.

I had a dumb argument recently with my dad's wife, it was around various aspects of illegal alien workers.

I've had a word count tracker for this site for quite some time.

A couple months ago I was surprised to read in a couple places that the book Land of Lisp was "much maligned".

So around May of 2024, I finally got around to reading this article on lisp gamedev with ECS.

According to Amazon, I purchased my first hammock in October 2013.

Previously this post was called "Feature request to self: draft posts".

Previously.

Back home after a month trip (Japan Trip 6, will make a separate post later).

I love the title, though the talk isn't quite a match.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

This article about a new gout study is really quite annoying.

There was a twitter thread a few days ago that ultimately got deleted because too many people made uncharitable reads of it.

Just a brief thought or lament on a common pattern in open source development.

Nowhere in sight.

I came across this silly song today, Colors of the Lisp.

In one of my last projects at BigCo, I had to implement a bunch of metrics monitoring and alerting for our services.

I was listening to a bit of my grandma's funeral service recording.

Been in a slump the last several months.

Previously.

I've migrated my blog and other things over to OVH, leaving Amazon's EC2 behind.

One of the few Shakespeare lines I like.

Most people in all of human history didn't leave much of a mark.