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"With the advent of the new Automatic Programming systems, we'll soon have no need for programmers." -- written about a predecessor of Fortran. My own programming career began in 1…

I'd like something like this for exploration of graph databases such as Neo4j.

The rectangular array is the basic data type for APL. Until fairly recently, the BEAM had no reasonable implementation of this. However, it seems like Nx's tensors might serve...

Breaking lines at logical boundaries in the "source code" makes it easier for me to see the structure of the text. It also gives me the ability to see the text in two different lay…

This is sort of a "generative" (aka property-based) approach to testing makefiles. So, I'd like to see a variation that can find a minimal failing subset of the makefile rules, as …

Nicely written article, but it seems to conflate "what it should do" with "how it should do it". So, for example, it talks a lot about optimizations (which feel like implementation…

Life hack: weigh cartons of eggs (Jumbo and any other sizes), then calculate the cost per ounce (or whatever). Jumbo eggs are often a real bargain (but you may need to adjust recip…

The article consistently talks about "time of day" (e.g., morning), but it could be that "time since arising" is more relevant.

BASIC, Forth, Logo, Python, and Ruby are all reasonable starter languages for children. Although Python's semantic indentation can be a hassle for blind users, this isn't an insupe…

The other day I wrote a fan letter to a developer who has been maintaining a popular and useful library for several years. In his reply, he said that this was the first fan letter …

@cabal Great project! What tooling do you use to assess and improve the accessibility of your ebooks?

A wonderful vignette. Note how Einstein structured the dialogue and interaction to find out the extent and nature of the problem, then help the listener. On an only vaguely related…

This seems like a very cool idea. The concurrency model in Erlang/Elixir/... eliminates the issues of shared mutable state and the supervision trees catch unexpected data-related p…

Clay- I strongly encourage you to find a way to make your writings available once again. Many of the things you wrote are as true today as they ever were and the rest are valuable …

I just tried out this search engine and was very favorably impressed. It was quite responsive (though that could be affected by demand) and gave good results. I really like the lac…

We chop them up coarsely, sprinkle on bits of feta and maybe basil, then add a bit of nice olive oil and stir.

My own preference would be for the pmOS project to pick a target subset of the devices on the Community and (perhaps) Testing lists. These would be chosen for a combination of crit…

The article closes with a discussion of "true interactive development". I was particularly interested in this and wondered how IEx (Elixir's REPL) compares to Common Lisp's. So, I …

Although it's early days, José Valim and some other folks are working on adding AI-related capabilities to Elixir and the (Erlang) BEAM. See "Introducing Nx" ( https://www.youtube.…

Burt Herring, the author of the Fast-5 diet book, contends that doing physical activity while fasting causes the body to reach into fat reserves for energy. This seems plausible to…

The Lispers contend that the use of parens is merely a surface detail which the reader can get past with a bit of effort. This is clearly true for some people, but I don't believe …

The Golden Gate Bridge now "sings" in heavy winds. Can anyone explain the physics behind this? Extra credit for suggesting a way to reduce this behavior.

I really wish Ubuntu Mate would come out for the RasPi 4.

While running scripted `apt-get -y install ...` commands, I occasionally encounter packages that require answers to configuration questions. In some cases, the "-y" option handles …