If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science? Ada Lovelace Today I read a couple articles on Ada Lovelace. She was the first programmer ever, which makes her the grandfather of my profession, programming 🤓 (a real G 😉). But she wasn't only a programmer, she was also a prophet. Long before the...

How worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?

Passively learning a given language can work, but active effort takes you far.

Nighttime vigils lead to unexpected moments of grace. She needed attention. Every half hour to an hour just before we'd fall asleep, she'd whine. She'd cry out, and I'd dutifully carry her to the bathroom to do her necessary business, then clean up after. We theorized it was a stomach bug. This went on for three...

I got up to some more weekend baking and made my favourite cookies ever, ginger molasses. When it was time to put our portion in a tin, I noticed that it was round! The tin is over 20 years old! I have a few of the hexagon ones too, and …

The 勉強会ジャム2024 // Study Buddy Jam 2024 has been extended until December 15!

One of my sporadic movie reviews

One of the most tried and tested techniques in programming is to build components that map closely to the real-world problems you are trying to solve. In domain-driven design (DDD), one of the key tenets is to have a domain model at the centre of your application. The domain model should be built in close...