code · words · emotions: Daniel Janus’s blog

Yesterday, upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over a renowned volume of the olden lore (and specifically, upon one of the problems contained in the Polish translation of the first edition), I suddenly felt a need to consult the orig…

Fighting procrastination has been my major concern these days.

A pen and a sheet of paper are simple utilities; but there lies vast and sheer power in them that I was not aware of.

So, how much disk space does your average CL image eat up?

Here’s what I came up with today, after no more than 90 minutes of coding (complete with comments and all): MORFEUSZ> (morfeusz-analyse "zażółć gęślą jaźń") ((0 1 "zażółć" "zażółcić" "impt:sg:sec:perf") (1 2 "gęślą" "gęśl" "subst:sg:inst:f") (2 3 "jaźń"…

After my shameful performance in the previous tournament, this weekend saw my greatest achievement in tournament Scrabble to date: that of advancing to the quarterfinals of the Cup of Poland.

No, I am not going to write about the programming language for generating vector graphics.

Probably every day I keep learning new things, without even realizing it most of the time.

(Introductory note: This post marks the beginning of a new series on this blog, aptly titled “Recently read.”

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol’n on his wing my three and twentieth year!

I’ve just packaged up the Common Lisp netstring handling code that I wrote a week ago into a neat library.

If you are reading this on a box that does not have an impressive amount of RAM (say, 512 MB or less) and is running a fairly recent Linux, then for goodness sake, drop everything you are doing right now and follow the instructions in this entry.

Let’s try: (let ((s (socket-stream (socket-connect "localhost" 10081 :element-type '(unsigned-byte 8))))) (write-netstring "{\"method\":\"ping\",\"params\":[],\"id\":1}" s) (finish-output s) (princ (read-netstring…

It has just occurred to me that the best way to throwing things out of one’s mind is to let it be absorbed by something else.

What is there left for me to do in this life?

The first version of the document I’ve been writing about a couple of days ago is now ready for public review.

Not until the next tournament, that is.

LaTeX + Beamer (for typesetting the presentation in a visually pleasant, clean, simple and consistent way) + KeyJNote (for presenting it stylishly to the audience) = a recipe for success.

Yesterday, my level of frustration with my old operating system at work exceeded a critical point, and I installed a fresh daily build of the not-yet-released Ubuntu 8.04 in place of it.

Jezus, the high elven wizard, saved the world with his brave efforts and became a great ruler while saving himself 34 times.

After a longish while of inactivity, I finally got around to finishing the draft spec of a next-generation protocol for Poliqarp, the be-all-end-all corpus concordance tool that I maintain.

So, there.