Journal of a Programmer

I'm an avid reader of Construction Physics, but was particularly taken by this recent essay about the history of Screwworm diseases in the United States: The Fall and Rise of Screwworm Well-researched and well-written are hallmarks of Construction Physics…

This is my kind of web article to stumble across: The road signs that teach travellers about France.

I got a kick out of XKCD 3193, it definitely hits that sweet spot that happens when you walk a certain side alley of trivia just a few steps too far.

It's that time of year, when pundits look back at the last 12 months and try to say something meaningful.

I routinely go for bicycle rides that take me past the old Oakland Raiders headquarters, which is about 1.5 miles from my house.

Of course, you already knew that BG3 is amazing.

... it is the most beautiful webcomic ever posted anywhere on the web by anyone.

My blogging software suggested that it would be glad to allow the AI to write my blog from now on.

18 months ago, in March 2024, the MV Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore Harbor.

Ina Caro's The Road from the Past is hard to describe.

This morning, I was driving home (from a doctor's appointment, ugh), and while stopped at a traffic light I was distracted by the biggest blimp I'd ever seen.

I visited Bordeaux, France, recently.

I happened to see a notice that the USCG Eagle was visiting the bay: Media Advisory: U.S.

I was fascinated by this survey article from Apple describing their work on memory safety: Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices.

Have a look at this recent chess game.

I happened to stumble across some interesting work from some people who are trying to take some of the Rust ideas about tracking memory lifetimes down into C and C++: A Provenance-aware Memory Object Model for C In a committee discussion from 2004 concern…

Mid-morning yesterday (8/30/2025), my wife's phone just stopped connecting to the cellular network (Verizon, in our case).

Got your note!

I like solving puzzles.

In recent weeks, I happened to stumble across two totally unrelated, but interesting, articles about the University of Chicago.

California has many, many Wilderness Areas.

Via the SF Chronicle: First salmon in nearly 100 years found in Northern California river.

I've been following Kyla Scanlon a lot recently.

One day, not too long ago, a bunch of Flock Automated License Plate Reader systems suddenly showed up all around my neighborhood.

My dad had a crazy-broad range of interests, not surprising for a man who had both a PhD and a JD.