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2026 9

  1. Things I Learned about Emacs This Week
  2. System Packages
  3. Emacs Mail Configuration with Mu4e and Outlook 365
  4. On Mathematical Slop
  5. On the List of Open Slopware
  6. Notes on Hidden Words 20 (Arabic)
  7. America’s Game
  8. The Ki Editor
  9. How to Resist

2025 20

  1. Some thoughts on leaving IntelliJ for Helix, Lazygit and Kitty.
  2. Against Learned Helplessness
  3. Why Didn’t I Ever Become Christian?
  4. The Purpose of Design Patterns
  5. On Partisan Politics and Gerrymandering September 3, 2025
  6. Causality August 20, 2025
  7. A Few More Shavian Notes July 24, 2025
  8. The Shavian Alphabet July 23, 2025
  9. I18n Puzzles, Day 2 June 2, 2025
  10. Relational Thinking in J May 28, 2025
  11. My thoughts on the CES Letter May 25, 2025
  12. Internationalization Puzzles in J, Day One May 20, 2025
  13. What is proof to a non-mathematician? May 14, 2025
  14. Basic Stats in J May 8, 2025
  15. Gratitude May 7, 2025
  16. Dracula May 7, 2025
  17. Dumb Arguments for Strong Typing May 1, 2025
  18. 2025-05-01 May 1, 2025
  19. Some notes about J from today April 22, 2025
  20. My Dad Used WordPerfect to Manage the Tape List May 27, 2024

2024 1

  1. Dear Lockhart December 3, 2021

2021 4

  1. Continued Fractions and Square Roots October 4, 2021
  2. Learning the Navajo Language June 8, 2021
  3. Interesting Areas of Math June 7, 2021
  4. A Year of Synthesizers December 30, 2020

2020 1

  1. Some comments on Toki Pona script February 20, 2019

2019 1

  1. Various J expressions September 14, 2018

2018 8

  1. Collatz in J September 4, 2018
  2. Newton's Method August 21, 2018
  3. Some Books about Religion August 1, 2018
  4. Radio Networking June 15, 2018
  5. Bisecting a List June 14, 2018
  6. Stack Overflow is Not Welcoming by Design May 1, 2018
  7. How it Went Badly March 9, 2018
  8. SQL Is Not The Problem March 9, 2018

2017 14

  1. Smoking Meat December 31, 2017
  2. What is Reification? December 19, 2017
  3. Functions to Delay Binding December 15, 2017
  4. Phrases as Functions December 14, 2017
  5. Exuberantly, Arrogantly Useless November 27, 2017
  6. APL Symbol Fetishism November 22, 2017
  7. Prolog's Eternal September November 21, 2017
  8. Why I'm not especially interested in machine learning November 14, 2017
  9. Next Generation Unix Tools November 8, 2017
  10. Cook Ting November 8, 2017
  11. How to Average in Prolog June 9, 2017
  12. Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Toki Pona April 27, 2017
  13. Missing the Point March 1, 2017
  14. The White Elephant Problem December 28, 2016

2016 10

  1. Why I Hate Stack Overflow “Documentation” December 23, 2016
  2. The Go Font November 17, 2016
  3. Jessica Rabbit — Sleigh Bells November 12, 2016
  4. Sad Sad Apple Tears November 3, 2016
  5. Everything I Know About Flour September 21, 2016
  6. Bashing Node.js and Grunt August 24, 2016
  7. Constraints and Semantics July 26, 2016
  8. Literate Programming Considered Harmful January 19, 2016
  9. Various Constructed Languages January 1, 2016
  10. Prolog's Advantage December 4, 2015

2015 4

  1. Operator? November 24, 2015
  2. "Expressiveness" November 12, 2015
  3. Choosing a Functional Language October 14, 2015
  4. Classifying Your Books March 27, 2014

2014 1

  1. Virtual Reality: Not Now, Not Ever October 22, 2013

2013 4

  1. On Tables and Relations September 25, 2013
  2. Daily Programmer Intermediate #125 - “Halt” Simulator in Prolog May 30, 2013
  3. The Great Emacsification of 2013 May 7, 2013
  4. Why ORM Divides Us May 15, 2012

2012 5

  1. Statement on Sexism in the Workplace March 29, 2012
  2. Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s: A rejection of the rejection of the 1970s February 22, 2012
  3. Free your technical aesthetic from the 2010s: A rejection of the rejection of the 1970s February 22, 2012
  4. A Heretical Calculus February 1, 2012
  5. A Heretical Calculus February 1, 2012

2011 16

  1. Good for Whom? November 17, 2011
  2. Good for Whom? November 17, 2011
  3. Juxtaposition in Programming Languages November 17, 2011
  4. Juxtaposition in Programming Languages November 17, 2011
  5. A Short Program in J November 9, 2011
  6. A Short Program in J November 9, 2011
  7. Mining the Past November 7, 2011
  8. Mining the Past November 7, 2011
  9. Visions of Reality October 31, 2011
  10. Visions of Reality October 31, 2011
  11. Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp October 30, 2011
  12. Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp October 30, 2011
  13. Smalltalk March 17, 2011
  14. Smalltalk March 17, 2011
  15. Mixing Metaphors March 6, 2011
  16. Mixing Metaphors March 6, 2011