Ballet in six acts for symphony orchestra and eight amplified voices. Music: Gabriela OrtizDramaturgy: Cristina Rivera GarzaWorld Premiere LA PHIL Nov 16, 2023 ---crg

With Twitter imploding and people (myself included) trying to move to multiple similar apps, I was following everyone I knew numerous times. It may not look like it, but I can be a bit shy! If we're "Twitter/conference friends", you probably noticed me clicking the follow button on at least three new platforms....

How to get Nomad running on NixOS for local development, with Podman and Docker task drivers.

As a general observation, I tend to be more productive when I know what to do next at any given moment. There are days when I’ve seemingly gotten a “week” of work done on an afternoon, those are the days when what I needed to do was very clear, and I basically just had a list of items to tick off one by one. There...

Here's a fun one: I got this wild hare to make a simple version of Knuth's Literate Programming in Ruby. How small could it be? Turns out 35 lines (not golfed) gives you quite a bit. YES, it includes out-of-order source, so it's a *real* literate programming system (by some definition of "real") and YES, the final...

As we head into my favourite season, I'm starting to think of what tunes I'll be rocking out to (at my desk, obvs).

On October 18, at 8.30 am, a group of about 30 Internet Scholars gathered for a Association of Internet Researchers preconference, called "Building an Alternative Social Media Network."

This is a list of all my favorite articles, accompanied by some brief discussion. I'd like to maintain a list like this somewhere to update periodically, along with the little notes, and notify readers if I've added anything particularly good. Let me know if you are aware of any good solutions for this at...