Automated Archives for June, 29th 2025
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Articles To Read
The following are articles that I saved today. Substance and quality will vary drastically.
Chess For the Day
Record: 2-0-4
Net Elo Change: -14
Games Played
- Cuchulinn - WIN
- WhipKream - LOSS
- Sabmarine - LOSS
- maximorus - LOSS
- huseyinmert - LOSS
- ATOZ8003 - WIN
Blog Posts On This Day
- June 29, 2024 (1 post)
- June 29, 2023 (3 posts)
- June 29, 2022 (6 posts)
June 26th, 2025
Nonnas (2025)
Put on Nonnas today and found it cute but overall nothing amazing. It's a feel good Vince Vaughn movie with a few notable faces and some delicious sounding and looking Italian food.
June 16th, 2025
"The Art of Lisp & Writing"
A wonderful essay that discusses the creative process, the process of discovery, of sharing knowledge and more.
I loved this paragraph:
As people need or want to do things with materials and the world, people with special skill take the fore and devise or discover how to manipulate the physical world to make those things. To avoid future mistakes, these makers write down rules of thumb, patterns of creation and making, and safety factors as a practical matter. Today we call them engineers. When we think of engineering today we think of carefully planned scientific engineering such as building bridges, where it is a fairly linear though costly and complicated process to go from the planning stage to a completed bridge. We forget the centuries of tinkering with bridge design in prehistoric and ancient times when bridges were gingerly tested as designers searched for principles. Even still, on November 7, 1940, at 11:00AM, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed from wind-caused vibrations after being open to the public for a few months, showing that even sophisticated engineering techniques—one could even call them contemporary engineering techniques—can fail.
This reminds me I was meaning, one day, in my plentiful free time to return to programming Lisp. I did some of it in college, and I recall enjoying it on a technical / logic level, though I never reached any real capabilities that had it do more than just things like simple terminal applications, or using Alan Kay's Smalltalk. Without a doubt, I saw the great power and potential. Lamba functions were a revelation for college-me.
Now more languages have similar functionality, and I don't know how Lisp has grown and evolved over the past twenty years (oh god, I can now refer to the time since I was in college as 'decades') -- but I am adding a note to myself to go looking into it again.
