Ancient poetry never ceases to amaze me. There are a lot of hidden gems in dense poetry that are easy to overlook when reading it, even in nursery rhymes. In this blog post, we will take a look at the classic poem Jack and Jill and see what makes it such an interesting poem. The poem Jack and Jill went up the hill...

Another year, another recap. Here is the highlight reel of all the stuff I enjoyed this year: film & tv, music, games, and books. I record all this in my Media Diary. Film & television My watch habits this year turned out to be similar to last year’s: I watched 49 movies and 15 TV shows (versus 48 and 13 in 2022,...

We got hitched! It was a Friday afternoon—bright and cold, with a cloudless blue sky—when our small group headed to San Francisco City Hall for the ceremony; my brother had flown in from the UK for the first time and we’d spent the week prior walking around and doing touristy things like going to Alcatraz; some...

Read on the website: Lambda Calculus is a strong model for computation, but computing examples in it often feels off. In this post, I'm trying to understand how Lambda Calculus evaluation/reduction actually works.

2023 is over, let's recap.

The final compromise text of the EU Cyber Resilience Act is now officially available, and various open source voices are currently opining on it. This is a complex act and other parts of the open source world (like the Eclipse Foundation and NLNet Labs) have been hard at work to advocate with the EU and member...