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Oct
28

FnConf '19 Discount Code

I will be speaking this year at FnConf '19. Here's a discount code for those who are
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Jul
30

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
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Jan
20

Applied Taijiquan #1: Introduction

I plan to do a series on Taijiquan and my explorations of it from the perspective of viewing the art
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Dec
23

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
Dec
23

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.
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Aug
25

Un-directed programming

Various forms of "directed" programming have become very popular these days. However, I find that many of these
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Aug
12

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?
Apr
14

Moving Beyond Facebook

Introduction First came Net Neutrality, then came the Snowden leaks, then came so many users’ leaked private photos, then came
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Mar
20

Trials of Running a Pub Server

So I decided to try to run a Pub server [http://scuttlebutt.nz] the other day. Unfortunately, it turns out
Mar
20

Playing around with Scuttlebutt/Patchwork

So I'm playing around with Scuttlebutt [http://scuttlebutt.nz] and Patchwork. I've even set up a