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The Elusive Computer Monograph Number 11

May 28, 2024

Starting in the late-1960s/early-1970s Elsevier and McDonald teamed up to print a series of computing books under the series “Computer Monographs“. I’ve read a couple and they were both well-written and likely ahead of their time. While looking deeper into the series I learned that 26 volumes in the series were printed, however I cannot […]

Notes from Underground: Software Tardigrades

Mar 8, 2024

Cryptobiosis is a peculiar state of biological organization Automatic bug repair and LLMs Tardigrades and foreign DNA Sussman’s “Evolvability and Robust Design” and the Art of the Propagator. Also look at Sussman and Hanson’s book Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner. Deep Specification :F

Languages Zoo

Jun 2, 2023 some comments

As long as I can remember I have loved the process of defining, designing, and implementing my own programming languages. I’ve created so many languages that you could say that I’ve created something of a programming languages zoo. Below you’ll find a list of the languages that I’ve created over the years and those that […]

The best things and stuff of 2022

Dec 13, 2022 some comments

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2022. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. also: see the lists from 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 I’m releasing this year’s post early due to upcoming travel, so please hold off creating […]

8-bit Spirituals

May 20, 2020 some comments

An 8-bit Spiritual (8BS) is a modern program that hearkens back to a time when applications provided a robust experience but fit onto a single floppy disk. Modern apps are bloated by comparison, but there are applications that fit the spirit of the 8-bit days. That said, a modern 8BS should provide a minimal set […]

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