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I use the Shunting Yard algorithm to handle precedence when parsing expressions in my assembler. It's great because not only is it simple to implement, but it simplifies the code in a hand-written recursive descent parser. The BNF is...
🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso S4E1, Home. It’s good to have Ted Lasso back! Super annoyed that I can’t binge, but honestly that might actually be a good thing. Having gulped The Bear in a sitting this weekly dose might be a good thing.
Kati Outinen is the whole deal here, wearing a mask of impassivity the whole movie but always with so much bubbling under the surface. This is still middle period Kaurismäki, with the same icy gaze that also haunts Lights in the Dusk....
Good morning, and again, happy “Discovering sweat glands in places on your body where you never thought there were any” Day. 🏝️ Reply by email
I wish more people understood that the future of human things is not already determined and just waiting for a wise oracle to reveal it. It is a dynamic system created by the actions of billions of human beings, natural forces, and the...
As I wryly commented on some Slack space somewhere, Matt's short story this week (#291) is such a perfect parable it should be in all children's books everywhere throughout all of remaining time. Then again... not exactly the sort of...
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 10th June 1986 Rediscovering earth-shaking debut records is the bread and butter of the Anniversary Series, and few shook as much earth in the doom genre as Swedish icons Candlemass, and their...
From volume IV of On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle: The world is not a calm sea, where all you have to do is refrain from rocking the boat… The world is a rocking boat, a ship in a storm, and when you’re capsized, that’s why....
On our way to Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹 by way of Amsterdam. ✈️
Sally Sax, writing for the Association of Research Libraries: Twenty-five years after the US copyright office’s first DMCA review, libraries operate in an increasingly non-competitive digital information environment. A lack of digital...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 26th June 2026 I hadn’t realised it had been three years since the first record from Costa Rican death metallers Astriferous, and ‘Pulsations from the Black Orb’ was a firm favourite of mine (check...
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Zack Whittaker, TechCrunch: Under current U.S. hacking laws, a human can face criminal charges for breaking into someone else’s computer without permission. But when an AI agent autonomously hacks into a...
Posting these things is a hostage negotiation. This stuff I'm making this week has been a for real internal battle. These things so rarely look like what I think they will and only sort of feel like I want them to feel when I look at...
I discovered today that my blog post from yesterday didn't post automatically to my Mastodon account—which I assumed was due to an error made. But instead, I found out that Robb Knight's EchoFeed is shutting down. The reasons he lists...
Zsh glob qualifiers can select files by many built-in attributes: type, size, modification time, and more. But when no built-in qualifier fits, you can bring in the e or + qualifiers to run arbitrary code, making globs a fully...