Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
You have reached my personal website. This is where I put my thoughts and feelings: about life, art, &c. (I also have a professional site, if that's what you're looking for.) This is my personal sandbox: a garden, a toolshed, a home-cooked meal. Enjoy your stay!
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I think that noa makes a great point about the nascent “choose European!” trend going on over there. While moving away from American hegemony is a necessary step (and not only in the tech or services realms), replacing one hegemon for...
Of course I found this in a Hacker News comment. Some background “AI tells” have been a thing for nearly as long as this heLLM-scape has, and they’re just about as bad as the actual machines they supposedly unearth. The whole problem...
My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one of those recommendations, so...
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one...
Gordon’s note caught my attention, then I disagreed with most of his points. Here are my thoughts on his five minor peeves with “many websites.” Comments are good, add them. Yes, I know it opens up things like spam but if you are posting...
Unraveling AI’s ‘Knitting Bullshit’ CommaFeed Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua Clojure Camp 4Clojure awesome-katas Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain clj-org: A Clojure Org Mode parser A Modern CSS Reset...
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as...
It’s been a long time since I wrote poetry, honestly too long. When I was writing poetry fairly regularly, I wrote a mixture of free verse and formed verse. Verse forms are fun because they’re an exercise in constrained writing, which...
Configuration bankruptcy is someting of a meme in the Emacs community, to the point where there is a dedicated wiki page describing the phenomenon. As a fully-programmable text editor, Emacs configuration tends toward spaghetti over...
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree I really enjoyed Travis Baldree’s first cozy fantasy novel about Viv the orc and her non-adventurous adventures serving this new-fangled beverage called coffee. Bookshops & Bonedust is a prequel to...
Let me begin by saying that web bookmarks are great. You can just save links that you find interesting or that you think you might need later, and there they are waiting for you when you need them. I hope that whoever came up with that...
Like many millenials, I played a good amount of The Sims as a kid. However, I didn’t really play it for the telling-people-what-to-do part … I was in it for the setup. I still remember my favorite house: it was all propped up on the...
Everyone (for some values of everyone) knows GNU nano, the editor that you use when you don’t know how to use emacs or vim (I’m sorry nano lovers). Nano is a fork of pico, the editor integrated with the alpine mail client. Both nano and...
I didn’t really read between December and March. I did a little Moby Dick, but mostly I worked on this website and chatting on IRC. I decided I should finally get back into reading again, so I could write this, if I’m being frank. He...
Spring has always been my favorite season. New life, green grass, blue sky, flowers, rain—what’s not to love? Of course, it’s not all roses and sunshine: my allergies go nuts this time of year, and when we lived under a mockingbird for a...