My dissertation is available online now! Neat! pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/2195520844…

This software is "free" as in "use-after", not "free" as in "beer".

'Code is like poetry; most of it shouldn't have been written.' -- MetaThis

Okay, so.... you can let-bind global variables in Common Lisp. And their bindings revert at the end of the let. I can't even with this language right now.

Rest In Peace Geoff Robinson . There will only ever be one of you. You brought so much joy and laughter to me and so many others. I just wish I could have said goodbye. Just because you die young doesn’t mean your story won’t live forever.

Frameworks that don't include basic usage examples as part of their documentation should all be tossed in a fire. Or, I guess, just a high-level description of fires in general, not a specific one.

Hell is other people's code.

The curry-rice conjecture states that when you make curry and rice, it is nearly impossible to make exactly enough curry and rice to eat it all together -- you will always need to make more rice or curry. The solution to this problems is considered NP-hard.

Cameron Swords I just knew there was an NP-hard generalization of the Bratwurst-Bun problem!

The more I write code with bad tools in inferior languages, the more I embrace indifference. Even a dull knife can make a fine dinner, most nights.

I made a new Vim color scheme! github.com/cgswords/vim-c…

If you go to a restaurant that brings you bread to eat before the meal, are you having dinner in a bread-first traversal?

I think hey.com might just be Google Inbox, but still alive. Which, it turns out, is a very compelling reason to switch to it from gmail.

Talia Ringer 🕊🪬 I would hope that the mentor's advice is "don't self-fund graduate studies in CS unless you have so much money that you don't need advice about how to manage it".

If a monad is like a burrito, is a cheesy gordita crunch a monad transformer stack?

Register for the Scheme and Functional Programming Workshop #Scheme2017 on the ICFP Conference page icfp17.sigplan.org/attending/regi…

Texas state line!

Dishes are the technical debt of cooking.

Got some signatures today! #Dissertation #defense #phdlife