↪️ replying to: https://joeyh.name/languages/ I love this comparison to programming languages being foreign countries

That moment when you are getting all sorts of strange errors and then you realize that you are dealing with lists instead of numpy arrays. Then casting as numpy arrays them fixes everything…

↪️ replying to: https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/ This is an interesting idea, digital books are programs! It totally makes sense.

↪️ replying to: https://fs.blog/2019/02/compounding-knowledge/ Interesting article about how Warren Buffet compounds knowledge. I think that it is more valuable than ever to form our own opinions about topics that concern us. So often we (I) just think what I am told, but independent and critical thinking is extremely important.

↪️ replying to: https://ebzzry.io/en/script-lisp/ This is awesome!! Scripting in CL, I definitely need to try this out.

↪️ replying to: http://www.textfiles.com/100/taoprogram.pro There is much wisdom in the Tao

“A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.”

↪️ replying to: https://undo.io/resources/presentations/cppcon-2015-greg-law-give-me-15-minutes-ill-change/ I had some idea that gdb was this powerful, but I had no idea that it was this easy to use! I guess with all things, it is just a matter of figuring out what it can do

↪️ replying to: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/interviewing-the-president-of-the-sovereign-nation-inside-nevada?ct=t(Newsletter_4_154_14_2016)&mc_cid=efb8726c8b&mc_eid=34be11d5e3 I’m honestly not sure what to think about this…

↪️ replying to: http://jsomers.net/blog/gettiers Interesting thoughts on “gettiers” applied to software development

Interesting alternatives to LaTeX in Lisp forms (of course, everything is better as a Lisp): - https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html - http://www.nongnu.org/skribilo/

↪️ replying to: https://github.com/anticomputer/emacs-totp/blob/master/emacs-totp.el This is awesome! I need to get it working because I just signed up for Mary Lou’s 2FA and it is very annoying to be dependent on my phone. It would be great to handle it all in Emacs

↪️ replying to: https://ode.io/news/about_ode/ode-is-becoming-ebeling.html “More often than we like to think, we make choices to do the expedient thing in our own shortsighted self-interest, maybe accompanied by some protest and handwringing in an attempt to distance ourselves from our responsibility, when we do what we know is wrong and leave it up to chance, as if the chance that a wrong might not happen forgives us from allowing for the chance that it will.”

↪️ replying to: https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/ Seems like an effective way to keep track of tasks and time

↪️ replying to: http://coconut-lang.org/ This is sweet! Functional programming in Python

↪️ replying to: http://blog.christianperone.com/2019/01/a-sane-introduction-to-maximum-likelihood-estimation-mle-and-maximum-a-posteriori-map/ Useful introduction to maximum likelihood.

↪️ replying to: http://aosabook.org/en/index.html “Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another’s mistakes rather than building on one another’s successes.”

↪️ replying to: https://text.causal.agency/005-testing-c.txt Nice! Simple and elegant unit tests in C.

↪️ replying to: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~steve/hammingquotes.htm “In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it.” Interesting perspective!

↪️ replying to: https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html I had no idea that with every release of OpenBSD there is a song and accompanying artwork. This really makes me smile! 🎉

↪️ replying to: https://ferd.ca/the-little-printf.html Very insightful story on the many faces of a programmer.

↪️ replying to: https://sivers.org/openbsd A great case for OpenBSD. I still want to give it a shot someday soon.

↪️ replying to: http://erikdemaine.org/fonts/ Seriously, some people just make cool stuff! Mathematical fonts 🎉

↪️ replying to: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nspring/software/style-check-readme.html Interesting idea, automating grammar checking via a custom script!

↪️ replying to: https://lemire.me/blog/rules-to-write-a-good-research-paper/ Great guide to writing well formed scientific papers!

↪️ replying to: https://lemire.me/blog/rules-to-write-a-good-research-paper/ Great guide to writing well formed scientific papers!

Currently compiling Emacs from source. It makes me feel like an 1337 h4x0r.

↪️ replying to: https://immutablewebapps.org/ 👍

↪️ replying to: https://github.com/philipphoman/acnp2018/ Awesome example of the power of Org+Beamer for academic poster creation

↪️ replying to: http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2018/11/structs-vs-parametric-polymorphism.html Insightful case for using Common Lisp in scientific computing

↪️ replying to: http://serge-sans-paille.github.io/pythran-stories/pythran-as-a-bridge-between-fast-prototyping-and-code-deployment.html I definitely need to try Pythran out sometime

↪️ replying to: https://www.with-emacs.com/posts/editing/search-and-replacement-techniques/ Great explanation of search and replace in Emacs

↪️ replying to: http://davemart.in/resistance/ 👍

↪️ replying to: http://git-annex.branchable.com/ Interesting, maybe I will give this a try someday

↪️ replying to: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1305.html “We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.” – Dijkstra

↪️ replying to: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD13xx/EWD1305.html “It is not the task of the University to offer what society asks for, but to give what society needs.” – Edgar Dijkstra

↪️ replying to: https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html This article is absolutely fascinating about the history of the weirdness of Lisp. I love it!

Turns out that upgrading to Mojave nukes all of your include files (which I was rudely made aware of when “string.h” couldn’t be found). Here is a solution that worked for me https://stackoverflow.com/a/52530212/1947159

↪️ replying to: http://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ 👍

↪️ replying to: https://hackeryarn.com/post/why-i-built-a-static-site-in-clojure/ This is such a cool idea! I have thought about building my own static blog system in Lisp (to replace Hugo), but there are so many nice things about Hugo (or any other existing library) that make things so easy! For example, I don’t really want to code up my own RSS feed

I feel the call of the Lisp! I think I’m going to try to do my next Multi-Agent Systems lab in Common Lisp… I really hope that it isn’t a mistake to have my first real exposure to CL be in a lab

↪️ replying to: https://perkeep.org/ This seems like a pretty cool idea. Does anyone use this?

↪️ replying to: https://wiki.haskell.org/Literate_programming I had no idea that Haskell had Literate Programming baked in to it. This is really cool! Yet another reason to keep learning Haskell

↪️ replying to: https://dev.widemeadows.de/2017/08/23/use-your-conda-environment-in-jupyter-notebooks/ 👍

↪️ replying to: http://ipe.otfried.org/ I am looking forward to using this tool then next time that I need to create my own custom figures in LaTeX. I like the idea of TikZ, but I haven’t gotten sufficient activation energy to use it effectively.

👍: https://scripter.co/org-keywords-lower-case/ super helpful, I didn’t realize that Org keywords can now be lowercase! This was one of my pet peeves with Org Mode when I first encountered it. Thanks @kaushalmodi!

This seems like a pretty neat service: https://meta.sr.ht/

Pretty cool, the first website: http://info.cern.ch/

Awesome example of communicating with child processes via pipes in C https://jineshkj.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/how-to-capture-stdin-stdout-and-stderr-of-child-program/

I know that C is old and that many aspects of the language seem to be lots of trouble compared to some of the newer, fancier languages; but, somethings about it seem so elegant and simple. For example, creating pipes for child processes.

This is definitely something that I want to do in the near future https://aaronparecki.com/2018/03/12/17/building-an-indieweb-reader thanks for the inspiration @aaronpk!

Pretty sweet article about FP in JS https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2018/how-to-deal-with-dirty-side-effects-in-your-pure-functional-javascript/

I really enjoy the exercise of trying to write one’s thoughts. It certainly leads to being able to express oneself better. I really need to write more!

For those of you that use CMake, there are some nice variables for platform independent static/shared library suffixes: ${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX} and ${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}. There are also prefix variables too!

Hours of debugging this morning, and Kaleb helped me find the bug!

👍 https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-short-guide-to-hard-problems-20180716/

I have literally programmed all day long, 12 hours. I consider that a success!

@manton Not sure if this is a bug with micro.blog, but when I imported posts where the .u-url was relative to my blog, then the links that micro.blog provided were relative to micro.blog (dead links). With absolute urls the links point to my blog just fine. Thanks for micro.blog!

The key to debugging is checking your assumptions every step of the way. What makes it hard is that there can be so many assumptions along those steps.

Let’s celebrate! Sending a micropub without a slug is working now. Aw, yeah.

I have really been enjoying writing my site using hugo. The syntax is fairly straightforward, and things start to make sense pretty quickly.

My site has support for https now! It is literally so easy with @netlify + @letsencrypt. Great job!

I really enjoy the flexibility of using the IndieWeb standards provides. Use which ever tool is best suited for what you are looking for, and if there isn’t a tool for the job then you have the specifications to write it yourself!

This is definitely my second real micropub post. Many hours of work to get to this point! Still haven’t decided if it was worth it, but I am starting to think that it is.

This is possibly my first real micropub post…