The Elusive Computer Monograph Number 11

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2024. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. also: see the lists from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 Great posts | articles | talks read/watched ELITE: The game that couldn’t be […]

Prior to discovering Clojure back in 2007, I was a full-time Java programmer. This was long before method handles, method references, lambda expressions, and invokedynamic, so viewing Java through a functional programming lens was not second-nature to me. Regardless, during my early Clojure explorations I fully expected code like the following to...

The Internet Archive currently has digital copies of almost every KAMAS Report, except for vol 2. KAMAS was (is?) early outliner software originally written for the Kaypro line of computers running CP/M. I previously wrote about KAMAS in my 8-bit Spirituals post and have looked for vol. 2 ever since to no avail. If anyone […]

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