Fastidious Elegance

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 time to learn and improve their penmanship, but they are wrong.

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 but I realized that it was such a large topic that

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 related to APL, so don't expect a very focused lecture or

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" creative approach to programming. Sometimes, it's nice to have a

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 sight of Zuckerberg defending himself and Facebook in front of Congress.

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 work, but simply that the maintenance and work to get one

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/technical network. While I can't stand normal social media, perhaps this

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 believe that they help me to more deeply internalize and understand

apl

User Command for Co-dfns

Co-dfns has a new User Command based interface!

job

Dyalog is hiring!

Are you a fast learner who likes to solve real problems with a passion for programming? How about a unique, one of a kind opportunity to work in diverse fields in cutting edge research and development?

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 or relevant to the average citizen. While it's easy to move

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 of a Jupyter notebook. Very cool! As I understand it, this

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 other than an attendee of one of my APL workshops (thanks

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 seems to be, "How do I get started?" You

apl

FunctionalConf 2017: APL Patterns vs. Anti-patterns

https://youtu.be/v7Mt0GYHU9A

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 distinct pleasure to watching that little glistening of the ink before

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 can find the video recording of this presentation at Dyalog TV.

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 the topic to go through the Sway presentation more carefully 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 Interview Aaron Hsu will be giving a talk. He will be

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. Regressions Currently Windows is the only tested environment Currently only NVIDIA

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 is a functional programming conference, with 80 sessions covering functional programming,

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 understand that I have always pushed for the smallest code that

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 Windows with something like this: > type *.EXT | find /c /v