, Issue 2; 06 Jan 2024 Random notes from my unsuccessful attempt to get this weblog onto Mastodon. A few days ago, I stumbled over a couple of weblog posts that talked about adding Mastodon to (mostly) static sites. I … Read more
From: Trey Harris Here’s a problem that *sounded* impossible… I almost regret posting the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks at a conference. 🙂 The story is slightly altered in order to protect … Read more
I gulped as I took back the booklet with shaking hands. I put it in my fraying purple folder, where it sits unopened to this day. This wasn’t a booklet forced into your hands by an intimidating yet freakishly friendly … Read more
Just yesterday, the seemingly promising Programming Languages Festival failed to raise enough funds on Kickstarter: its organizer, a YouTuber who goes by Context Free (I see what you did there) asked for $50,000 and raised $8,709. Given that he is … Read more
You can’t save it to iCloud files and open it You can’t use the share button You can’t open an .ics file on your browser and add to the Calendar You can’t open the Calendar app and import from there … Read more
So the other day I both defined Tcl procedures all by myself and used them interactively, and I liked it, to the point where it felt like some kind of local optimum. This entry is an attempt to cope with … Read more
This is Words and Buttons Online — a collection of interactive #tutorials, #demos, and #quizzes about #mathematics, #algorithms and #programming. Reading disassembly is more like reading tracks than reading a book. To read a book you have to know the language. Reading tracks, … Read more
This is sort of Morningstar’s version of Murphy’s Law. When we were assembling our catalog of the things we had learned over the past decade and a half in this business, we almost didn’t include this one because it seems … Read more
Bing AI got some answers completely wrong during their demo. But no one noticed. Instead, everyone jumped on the Bing hype train. Google’s Bard got an answer wrong during an ad, which everyone noticed. Now the narrative is “Google is … Read more
FUN FACT: I own porn I can’t watch. So this is a copy of Adultery for Fun & Profit, a 1971 X-rated film. It won the Grand Prize at the Amsterdam Adult Film Festival, for the year 1970-1971! BUT it’s … Read more