Posts from programming

2025

February

Pen Glyph Learn Common Lisp With Touretzky | February 22 | Tagged: lisp education programming books reviews

2024

November

Pen Glyph Feeling Code's Consequences | November 13 | Tagged: lisp ui clojure programming medley_interlisp

2021

April

Pen Glyph The Healing Power of Code | April 9 | Tagged: programming zen life

March

Pen Glyph My Favorite Meme About Recursion | March 25 | Tagged: programming humor

February

Pen Glyph Quitting Facebook Properties | February 2 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Pen Glyph The Social Media That Should Have Been | February 5 | Tagged: social_media programming modern_times

2020

October

Pen Glyph Building Custom Quick Fix Buffers in Vim From JSON | October 6 | Tagged: vim programming

Facebook Glyph SF's Coca-Cola Sign Goes Away | October 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming austin san_francisco

September

Facebook Glyph "Dune" trailer | September 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

June

Facebook Glyph Black Lives Matter in Vidor, TX | June 8 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Texas: 5000 New Cases in a Day | June 24 | Tagged: modern_times programming texas coronavirus

May

Facebook Glyph The Begging of the Vulnerable | May 7 | Tagged: coronavirus programming

Facebook Glyph Bless Shai-Hulud! | May 12 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Armed Citizens Defy Pandemic Protocol | May 13 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph ...man skeptical of coronavirus gets infected, changes opinion | May 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming coronavirus maskholes

April

Facebook Glyph COBOL's Back (again) | April 22 | Tagged: coronavirus programming

March

Facebook Glyph Dan Patrick is a Bozo | March 24 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph My Neighbors: the Haudenosaunee | March 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

January

Pen Glyph Automating Development With Tasks in VSCode | January 8 | Tagged: programming tooling editors vscode

2019

November

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Go home Aggregator and trending algorithm, you’re drunk. | November 15 | Tagged: social_media programming

October

Pen Glyph Extracting JSON Data With jq | October 10 | Tagged: programming shell

July

Facebook Glyph External Link: https://youtu.be/n12lyKTAa50 | July 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming capitalism politics

April

Facebook Glyph The Mueller Report Has Two Spaces After Every Sentence/ | April 20 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2018

December

Facebook Glyph Grandfather's House in Queens; 1940 | December 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york genealogy

October

Facebook Glyph Lauren Scissorhands | October 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming film halloween

July

Facebook Glyph Abstractions for Education Writers | July 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming education

June

Facebook Glyph Who Can Functional Program on this Day? | June 2 | Tagged: travel programming

May

Facebook Glyph Vatican Museum | May 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming wedding travel italy rome

Facebook Glyph Text Internet | May 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming text_internet

April

Facebook Glyph Flatiron School Expands to Houston | April 3 | Tagged: modern_times programming education

Facebook Glyph JavaScript and English | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming linguistics

March

Facebook Glyph The Algorithm | March 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Linux Stockholm Syndrome | March 24 | Tagged: modern_times humor programming

Facebook Glyph Thesis Sans Revision Control? Agony | March 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph RSS Should Return! | March 31 | Tagged: modern_times programming

February

Facebook Glyph Eleanor | February 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel woodstock

Facebook Glyph Moving Efficiently on the Command Line | February 6 | Tagged: modern_times programming unix

January

Facebook Glyph Smart People: Point Blank in their Honesty | January 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Quantum Computer: Beautiful | January 11 | Tagged: modern_times programming art

Facebook Glyph Life-Changing Use of xargs | January 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming unix

2017

December

Facebook Glyph How the Index Card Cataloged the World | December 5 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph End of DBC | December 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming dbc

Facebook Glyph Fence-Hopping Byron | December 13 | Tagged: modern_times programming dog

November

Pen Glyph Windows Returns as a Platform for Web Development Again | November 12 | Tagged: programming productivity

Facebook Glyph Preview of American Fascism | November 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming politics

Facebook Glyph More Alan Kay | November 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph FCC Net Neutrality Policy Changes | November 21 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Screens and Teens | November 22 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph GYRO | November 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph What Etruscan Sounded Like | November 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

October

Facebook Glyph Debugging JavaScript Power Tools | October 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

September

Facebook Glyph Debbie Harry Forever | September 8 | Tagged: music programming

Pen Glyph Chrome Extension: amaJSON: Export Notes From Kindle Books as JSON | September 14 | Tagged: javascript programming productivity

Pen Glyph Guide to Developing Chrome Context-Menu Applications | September 26 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Pen Glyph Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 1 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Pen Glyph Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 2 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Pen Glyph Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 3 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Pen Glyph Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 4 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Pen Glyph Guide to Developing Chrome Context Menu Applications Part 5 | September 27 | Tagged: programming javascript google_chrome

Pen Glyph Errors Inhibiting Complex Software | September 30 | Tagged: software leadership programming

Facebook Glyph The Buried Complexity of Software | September 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

August

Facebook Glyph Claude Shannon: Inventor of Information | August 15 | Tagged: science programming

Facebook Glyph Willpower Doesn't Work, Here's How to Actually Change | August 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming career

Facebook Glyph Strongbad Nostalgia | August 29 | Tagged: modern_times programming

July

Facebook Glyph Music: Allie X | July 13 | Tagged: music programming

Facebook Glyph External Link: https://t.co/j2j8Tb1uYt | July 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

June

Facebook Glyph A Common Node Task with No Clean Implementation | June 6 | Tagged: programming nodejs pipelines streams

Facebook Glyph Meeting Your Dog in Miniature | June 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel new_jersey dog

May

Facebook Glyph Professional Burnout Resource | May 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming depression burnout

Facebook Glyph Dadaist Graffiti of New Jersey | May 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

April

Facebook Glyph Every Tech Q&A | April 16 | Tagged: modern_times programming

March

Facebook Glyph Coding Is Not the New Literacy | March 17 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph My Pull Quote in 'New York Magazine' | March 25 | Tagged: programming

January

Facebook Glyph Translations | January 6 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph In Chicago with Lauren | January 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming travel chicago

2016

December

Facebook Glyph Keybase.io Against Authoritarians | December 14 | Tagged: modern_times programming politics

November

Facebook Glyph Post-Trump: Grab 'Em By the Cryptography | November 11 | Tagged: anti_trump politics cryptography programming

Facebook Glyph Gnostic Web Development | November 12 | Tagged: programming

Facebook Glyph Margaret Hamilton Presidential Medal Winner | November 22 | Tagged: programming

Facebook Glyph Empathy Vacuum in Silicon Valley | November 29 | Tagged: modern_times programming

October

Facebook Glyph Dennis Ritchie Dies | October 13 | Tagged: rip programming

August

Facebook Glyph Communicating Across Uncrossable Expanses | August 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming scifi linguistics

June

Pen Glyph Study Latin to Become a Better Programmer | June 17 | Tagged: latin programming

May

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Programmers: Duck Typing | May 9 | Tagged: mobile programming

March

Facebook Glyph Brooks: Anti-Trump | March 18 | Tagged: anti_trump politics programming

January

Facebook Glyph The Amazing Incan Khipu: Textile Accounting | January 3 | Tagged: knitting programming

Facebook Glyph Kurosawa's Composition | January 6 | Tagged: film programming

Facebook Glyph Evolution of Religions vs Programming Languages | January 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2015

December

Facebook Glyph Computer as Household Bliss Umpire | December 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming relationships

November

Facebook Glyph Dangerous Literature | November 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york

Facebook Glyph Onion: Tech Gentrification | November 11 | Tagged: modern_times programming

October

Facebook Glyph Personality of Programmers | October 29 | Tagged: society programming

June

Facebook Glyph Praise the Average Programmer | June 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

May

Facebook Glyph Post-Bootcamp Life | May 27 | Tagged: modern_times programming dbc

April

Facebook Glyph When You Write a Great Song and Know It | April 9 | Tagged: music programming

Facebook Glyph Essential Computer Science Ideas in Relatable Metaphor | April 27 | Tagged: education programming

March

Facebook Glyph Seeing Hurray for the Riff-Raff | March 15 | Tagged: music programming new_york

February

Facebook Glyph Fabulous Korean Takes on Western Fairy Tales | February 7 | Tagged: books programming

Facebook Glyph Fascinating Tale of Data Exfiltration | February 21 | Tagged: programming encryption politics

Facebook Glyph Edward Snowden Story Continues | February 28 | Tagged: politics programming encryption

January

Facebook Glyph Commodity Prosthetics | January 8 | Tagged: art programming

Facebook Glyph Kraftwerk Documentary | January 31 | Tagged: music programming

2014

December

Facebook Glyph Dogs and the Words We Say | December 1 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph #NowPlaying Blue Christmas Michael Bublé • Christmas on #Spotify | December 25 | Tagged: music programming

November

Facebook Glyph In Case You Didn't Know about Hedy Lamarr | November 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph First Day Working in NYC | November 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming new_york dbc

October

Facebook Glyph NYT: Web-Era Trade Schools | October 15 | Tagged: modern_times programming

August

Facebook Glyph Code Education is Rebellion | August 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming culture capitalism

July

Facebook Glyph Reading Hacker News: It might upset you | July 18 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Finished my library: LatinIRB | July 19 | Tagged: programming ruby

Facebook Glyph Quantity Trumps Quality | July 30 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph "Are We There Yet" by Rich Hickey | July 31 | Tagged: programming

June

Facebook Glyph A Primer on Technical Debt | June 28 | Tagged: programming

Facebook Glyph 9 Signs You've Found Your Soulmate | June 28 | Tagged: modern_times programming

May

Facebook Glyph Central Subway Project | May 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming

March

Facebook Glyph Frank Frazetta Museum | March 7 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Elation at Learning He Was Right | March 23 | Tagged: modern_times programming

January

Facebook Glyph Interviews are Auditions, not Quizzes, Right? | January 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2013

November

Facebook Glyph Mobile Upload: Good morning #rubyconf | November 8 | Tagged: mobile photography programming ruby

July

Pen Glyph Questlove Describes Programming | July 21 | Tagged: music programming

Pen Glyph Reading: The Early History of Smalltalk | July 28 | Tagged: philosophy programming

June

Facebook Glyph US / Eastern European Expectations on Privacy | June 24 | Tagged: politics programming

April

Pen Glyph A Beginner Again: Rails 4.0 + Ruby 2.0 on Ubuntu VPS | April 4 | Tagged: rails ruby programming

Pen Glyph Models of Computer Science's Science: Formal versus Empirical | April 4 | Tagged: programming ruby philosophy

Pen Glyph Spring Break and Tech Conferences | April 15 | Tagged: programming internet_culture culture technology

February

Facebook Glyph Saying "I love you" with Typesetting | February 25 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2012

December

Pen Glyph Appearance on Ruby Rogues Podcast | December 1 | Tagged: ruby programming

Pen Glyph Understanding the DCI Paradigm: Super Mario Brothers Demo | December 19 | Tagged: ruby programming

Facebook Glyph Harsh Truths From Cracked | December 21 | Tagged: modern_times programming

November

Facebook Glyph Sandi Metz Live | November 7 | Tagged: programming

Facebook Glyph Our Product Release | November 12 | Tagged: modern_times programming

September

Pen Glyph Building Applications in Ember.JS | September 19 | Tagged: ember javascript programming

April

Facebook Glyph More Astounding Videos By OK! Go | April 7 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2011

April

Facebook Glyph The Visual Effects of Tron: Legacy | April 4 | Tagged: modern_times programming film

March

Facebook Glyph Verb Vector Generator | March 30 | Tagged: linguistics programming

January

Facebook Glyph Monkeying with Ruby Metaprogramming | January 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2010

October

Facebook Glyph Link: Legos Making Legos | October 20 | Tagged: modern_times programming

September

Facebook Glyph Polish Notation T-Shirt | September 9 | Tagged: modern_times programming

Facebook Glyph Are Programmers a Cruel Caste | September 19 | Tagged: modern_times programming

March

Facebook Glyph Cisco CRS 3 Router | March 10 | Tagged: modern_times programming

2009

August

Facebook Glyph Thing I made: http://github.com/sgharms/m4resume/tree/master | August 6 | Tagged: programming

Facebook Glyph My Whisky List in GitHub | August 17 | Tagged: whisky programming

February

Pen Glyph Speaking of Grand Yak Shaves | February 9 | Tagged: latex programming internet_culture

2008

January

Pen Glyph Getting back on the Rails: Headaches around Rails 2.x | January 2 | Tagged: ruby rails programming rails

Pen Glyph Scaffolding has changed in Rails 2.0: Has it become un-Agile? | January 2 | Tagged: programming rails ruby wtf rails ruby

2007

June

Pen Glyph Attending the Web 2.0 Conference, Boston MA | June 19 | Tagged: programming internet_culture

Pen Glyph Rubyists in Texas! | June 24 | Tagged: ruby austin programming

April

Pen Glyph Humility: Finding old programs | April 22 | Tagged: personal programming

Pen Glyph Developers: The myth of starting from scratch | April 25 | Tagged: programming productivity

March

Pen Glyph Rails, and The Loneliness | March 6 | Tagged: personal programming productivity

2006

September

Pen Glyph Curse you Neal Stephenson and your knack for similitudes! | September 11 | Tagged: unix programming writing

Pen Glyph OpenLDAP ate my week... | September 29 | Tagged: programming

July

Pen Glyph A Handy Tip for Ruby Developers: Dispatch Tables | July 8 | Tagged: ruby perl programming

March

Pen Glyph Finished the SudokuGrid application | March 6 | Tagged: cocoa programming

February

Pen Glyph I enjoy languages and computer languages, specifically | February 9 | Tagged: programming

2005

July

Pen Glyph Emacs v. vi is rooted in the love of Lisp | July 24 | Tagged: vi emacs editors unix programming internet_culture

February

Pen Glyph Want to learn LISP on Mac OS X | February 19 | Tagged: lisp osx programming

Pen Glyph A weekend spent battling Lisp | February 27 | Tagged: lisp programming

2004

November

Pen Glyph It’s so obvious... | November 11 | Tagged: programming

Pen Glyph Computer Scientists versus Everyone Else | November 11 | Tagged: education programming internet_culture

October

Pen Glyph On Programming...why I love it | October 18 | Tagged: programming productivity

April

Pen Glyph Got a bit o’ shut eye, existential dread and e-mail (I like mutt! Woof!) | April 14 | Tagged: personal mutt programming

2003

October

Pen Glyph Clarity of rationale | October 23 | Tagged: programming productivity philosophy

August

Pen Glyph Screw Microsoft | August 21 | Tagged: anti_microsoft programming