A very practical introduction to Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs), in which we’ll build a non-trivial parser using the most excellent cpp-peglib single-include C++ library. Post includes links to PEG libraries for Go, Rust and Python, and a ready to run GitHub repository of all examples. If I’ll ever stop...

RewiredThe McKinsey Guide to Outcompeting in the Age of Digital and AIAuthors: Eric Lamarre, Kate Smaje, Rodney Zemmel I’ve heard a lot of strange things about McKinsey, starting with this parody commercial: Then few more facts, but still provided in an amusing way by the John Oliver:

ZeroNet is a decentralized network that enables dynamic sites, such as blogs and forums, unlike popular content-addressed storage networks that came later. Sites aren’t addressed by immutable hashes; instead, site updates are signed by Bitcoin addresses. A moot point is that Bitcoin addresses are case-sensitive, and...

Day 22 of NaPoWriMo. My poem A Monday morning couplet of fourteeners. Monday delivery If Monday were a package shipped by Amazon for free I'll keep it wrapped and ship it back — and pay if charged a fee Featured poem Three cerebral triolets. Mind Games by Susan Jarvis Bryant Propaganda It wants your mind. It wants...

Adiós a mi autocaravana Es mes hace un año que vendí la autocaravana. Algunos de lo que me leéis igual no sabíais que la tenía. La compré hace diez años. Antes de ella estuve viajando en una Citroen Berlingo que yo mismo campericé durante otros cuatro años. Y ese ha sido uno de los motivos de venderla este año. 14...

Early on Thursday morning, after a phone call with Bernard on the East Coast, I sent my email ultimatum to CMP/TechWeb. “I’ve given this a lot of thought over the past 12 hours or so,” I wrote, “and it really is time for me to make a decision.” I asked for “a firm, signed, LOI” [Letter of Intent] before 9:00 a.m. on...

Apparently, there are a lot of Emacs purists in the world who, over the years, have learned to type such complex key sequences as C-x r t M-. C-c C-p fluently. I'm not one of them. And when I tried to figure out how to customize it for myself, the web forums were full of comments saying it wasn't a good idea....

Here’s the scoop behind the Who, Why and What behind Nara Fellowship. Why do I think of myself as a bridge, a prism and the moon?