Learn Datalog Today is an interactive tutorial designed to teach you the Datomic dialect of Datalog. Datalog is a declarative database query language with roots in logic programming. Datalog has similar expressive power as SQL. Datomic is a new database … Read more
I just saw an announcement from November of 2020 in which the Federal Transit Administration proposes to study international best practices… in on-demand public transit. It goes without saying that the international best practice in on-demand micromobility is “don’t.” The … Read more
There are many useful tools in Linux and macOS (… and *BSD and others) that can only be called from the command line. We’ve all called git, cat, curl, less, open, grep/rg and others to do things that GUI programs … Read more
Ah, C. Still the language of modern high-performance computing. C is the lowest-level language most programmers will ever use, but it more than makes up for it with raw speed. Just be aware of its manual memory management and C … Read more
In my 20+ years as a software engineer, I’ve constantly been asked or expected to learn complex things. In his book Deep Work, when talking about the knowledge economy, author Cal Newport writes, “If you can’t learn, you can’t thrive.” … Read more
Learn about problems, not solutions Sometimes people ask me what they should learn – they’ve heard AI is kind of hot, but DevOps is too? What’s the best way to get into AI? Should they start with computer vision or … Read more
DISCLAIMER: Any activity that involves ropes is potentially hazardous. Lives may be at risk – possibly your own. Considerable attention and effort have been made to ensure that these descriptions are accurate. However, many critical factors cannot be controlled, including: … Read more
You Can Learn Glass Blowing THE reason that amateur glass blowing is such an interesting hobby is that the work acts as a stimulant to your creative ability. With very simple and inexpensive tools, in a corner of a room … Read more
If we sincerely ask “why learn Haskell?”, then we wind up learning Haskell! Asking a “why?” question means we want to be told a reason. But would we accept any reason? It seems not, for if any answer suffices, then … Read more