Subset Park

I recently spent about a year developing my own shorthand: Smith Shorthand.

If you’ve never read Parsing with Derivatives, I recommend it enthusiastically.

Here are two digestible examples of data analysis using K.

In my documentation of Mariglia I noted, somewhat in passing, that it’s sometimes called il bridge sardo—Sardinian Bridge.

In late 2019, I wrote about a new shorthand system I was designing.

In Combinatory Programming, we attempt to provide motivating examples for the various combinators identified as useful to everyday programmers.

To The Programmer A combinator is a kind of function.

Let’s take a standard, classical haiku: furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto1 —Matsuo Bashō There are a few formal characteristics that make a haiku.

We are now fifteen days into the year of Ulti.

I’ll tell you about my plan for 2023: I want to embark on a year-long media campaign to plant the seeds of a new card game in Anglophone culture.

Every so often, someone who knows I’m avid card-player says, “Oh, I’ve always wanted to learn bridge!”

I recently watched Conrad Barski’s video introducing zek, a program he wrote to take Zettelkasten-style notes on the command line.

Array logic operates by a fill algorithm.

The last few weeks I’ve been in a bit of a ferment of inspiration.

Above is a sample of Offenbacher Schrift, a style of handwriting designed by the type designer (and, regrettably, enthusiastic German nationalist), Rudolf Koch.

For the past month and a half or so, I’ve been working on a new software system for playing card games online.

Card-playing, as a pastime, depends on the ability of people to gather freely, in close quarters, and handle the same objects in turn.

Henry Sweet’s Current Shorthand1 is a historical curiosity twice over: once because very few people today need to learn shorthand at all or even know what it is; twice because as shorthands go, it’s completely obscure.

I The New Abbreviations Thus far I’ve designed and used three shorthands.

Friends, I am now at least in this respect a rare breed: an Elixir programmer who has never written Ruby.

Effectively speaking, I’ve always been a Vim user.

Compile-Time Sort in D Michael Parker recently wrote a blog post showing how to implement a compile-time quicksort in D after Björn Fahller recently wrote a blog post showing how to implement a compile-time quicksort in C++17.

Unit Testing in Nim and Python Here’s a snippet of a unittest test case that I wrote in Python some years ago: class TestClasses(TestCase): def setUp(self): self.ace_diamonds = Card(Rank.Ace, Suit.DIAMONDS) self.king_clubs = Card(Rank…

I’ve been spending a lot of time with the Nim programming language recently.

Uncle Bob, noted programming pundit, has written a strange blog post.

Let’s establish a few terms.

The issue at hand When working in Django, one often finds oneself with the following sort of question: How many records were created (or updated, or posted) today (or yesterday, or last Monday)?

Let’s begin 225 years ago.

Prelude A year ago I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I grew up.

Today I deployed gitp, my first Sublime Text plugin.

In French Canada, according to Pagat.com, there’s a game called Mitaines, which means “Mittens” in French.

I’m a fan of 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, by Thomas Fink and Young Mao.

My first major project at Hacker School is called Abba, the Abbreviation Engine.