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A few months ago I was thinking again about Pavel Panchenka’s (LLM-assisted) “We’d be Better Off with 9-bit Bytes”, which posits that standardizing on nine-bit bytes would have saved us from a number of encodings running out of space while not having much…

As of this year I’ve had my first experience serving on a jury, in a criminal case in a California court.

Sometimes you have configuration files or simple data files that you want to maintain by hand, in a text editor.

A while back I posted this spicily-phrased take: I appreciate that someone else understands that being a GUI has some basic requirements and “draws to the screen” is not the interesting one.

SICPelago is a randomized Scheme environment where you unlock core capabilities by solving carefully selected exercises adapted from Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.