And I gave a tutorial on. It was structured into two parts, each consisting of a presentation of the theory followed by a demonstration of its use in the RedPRL. The tutorial was based on work that I have been doing over the last several years with my students, Carlo. And with my colleague Daniel Licata. Supported by AFOSR MURI grant FA9550-15-1-0053.

General crabbiness and bad feelings. Thursday, February 1, 2018. Pages fall from the calendar. And Spiderweb Software releases another game. In 1997, I wrote a hit game. In 2002, I remastered the game into Avernum 3. The Science of Careful Theft.

It is the story of how, twenty years ago, Paul Graham and Robert Morris built an online store generator called Viaweb. And out-manoeuvred their many competitors using their secret weapon, Lisp. But it is much more than a success story with a fairytale ending. He identified what he called.

Rubber Band Audio is a little audio-processing application that does time-stretching and pitch-shifting using the Rubber Band Library. Rubber Band Audio is available direct from my little company. For 799 or currency equivalent.

Thursday, July 30, 2015. A quick review of the BIND9 code. Its biggest problem is that it has too many feature. It attempts to implement every possible DNS feature known to man, few of which are needed on publicly facing servers. DNS servers exposed to the public should have the minimum number of features - the server priding itself on having the maximum number of features is automatically disqualified. DNS should have hidden masters.

The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics. The theory claims that observing reality fundamentally changes it. And tracked those who were.

Brent Laabs on programming and culture. Sunday, May 3, 2015. Three Tales of Second System Syndrome. Despite surface similarities, such as the problem of Unicode support, each language ended up on a radically different track. In it, he said,. To which Andy Lester of PerlBuzz replied. So how did those predictions work out? Having seen how .

Stuff about my work at Mozilla. Such classes are almost always used as local variables. The lifetime of the variable lasts from its point of declaration to the end of its innermost containing block.

Monday, June 29, 2015. The more things change . Why am I still here? Six years, for me, is a huge amount of time. My average tenure until Netflix has been about 27 months. More interestingly, if you exclude my longest and shortest stints, the standard deviation of my .