penmanship Penmanship for the Modern Literati The written word is too valuable, meaningful, and powerful for poor speech communicated by poor penmanship. The written word is worth the cultivation of penmanship skill. People think that they do not have
martial arts Applied Taijiquan #1: Introduction I plan to do a series on Taijiquan and my explorations of it from the perspective of viewing the art as an authentic, martial practice. This began as a single post on Taijiquan
apl LambdaConf Tree Manipulation Workshop Videos The videos for my LambdaConf Tree Manipulation workshop are now online. I was moving through the workshop pretty quickly, and we cover a lot of different topics across a wide range of topics
text editor ALE: arcfide's line editor ed(1) meets Emacs implemented in APL, a la Acme. ALE is a line editor that I have created because I can.
apl Un-directed programming Various forms of "directed" programming have become very popular these days. However, I find that many of these are too restrictive and not conducive to what I consider a "human&
windows Emptying the Recycle Bin on an Empty Desktop How do you empty the Recycle Bin when you don't have the icon on your Desktop?
SSB Moving Beyond Facebook Introduction First came Net Neutrality, then came the Snowden leaks, then came so many users’ leaked private photos, then came the evidence of censorship by Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, then came the
social media Trials of Running a Pub Server So I decided to try to run a Pub server the other day. Unfortunately, it turns out that the state of the pub servers is rather poor right now. Not that they won't
social media Playing around with Scuttlebutt/Patchwork So I'm playing around with Scuttlebutt and Patchwork. I've even set up a pub server: social.sacrideo.us Specifically intended to help those who are interested in keeping up with my own social/
apl Paper is dead, long live Paper Programming It should come as no surprise to anyone who reads this blog that I love to program "by hand." I happen to practice a degree of ascetical programming practices, and I
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politics Interesting Article on the Administrative State I found this an interesting article: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/455225/politics-administrative-state-mcgroarty-robbins-tuttle One major point here is the difficulty in addressing the dangers of governmental power-grabs that don't "feel" dangerous
apl Dyalog APL in Jupyter I just wanted to make a short post mentioning a new repository that has gone live at Dyalog: https://github.com/Dyalog/dyalog-jupyter-kernel Now you should be able to use Dyalog APL inside
apl Decoding Inverses Everyone has something to learn, and we should always be open to those new things the world around is showing us. I learned a "new" trick in APL recently from none
codfns Getting Started with APL I have been giving a number of talks and workshops on APL recently, and somewhat to my surprise, people are interested! However, this has led to a small dilemma, because the next question
ink Shine Ink, Shine! There's something deeply satisfying about the smooth draw of a liquid ink fountain pen gliding across high-quality, Japanese paper. In my case, an extra fine nib with Noodler's ink, and I get the
co-dfns Co-dfns 2017 Report A great deal of work has gone into this year to improve and expand the capabilities of Co-dfns. The following presentation describes these updates in brief. Co-dfns 2017 Presentation at Dyalog '17 You
apl APL Style: Patterns and Anti-patterns in APL I gave the following talk at Dyalog '17 this year. I think it was a lot of fun, but I had to go through the slides pretty fast. I encourage anyone interested in
apl An Interview about LambdaConf Workshop The following is an interview that I was asked to give about my upcoming LambdaConf workshop. I have reproduced it here because it has been removed from the original host location. Aaron Hsu
co-dfns Co-dfns 2017.04.1 Release Page This is a pretty small but significant release. We've cleaned up a few things, added the last missing primitives, improved output a bit, and begun the work towards recursion and branching.
apl LambdaConf 6-hour Leap Workshop Intensive on APL For those who are interested in getting an intensive experience with Modern, Functional Array Programming with Co-dfns, APL, and Dyalog, consider attending my 6-hour intensive 1 day workshop at Lambda Conf 2017. LambdaConf
co-dfns Smaller code, Better code I was enjoying some pizza the other day with some buddies that know a bit about my research and understand where I am coming from with regards to my own computing aesthetics. They
windows Counting Lines in the Windows Command Line This is a quick tip that I think everyone should know. If you want to count lines such as the following Unix command: $ cat *.EXT | wc -l You can do that easily in