I recently gave a talk entitled “Data Pipelines A La Mode”, with the following premise. We can use techniques from functional programming and distributed build systems in our (big) data (science) pipelines to allow us to know what code was used for »
A few years ago I did a “101 Goals in 1001 Days” project and it was rather transformational (see here for a summary). I started a second list but for various reasons got sidetracked so I have decided to start over. Looking at the list I still wanted »
For a long time adding multiple monitors to my laptop has JustWorked™ and have been a bit complacent about assuming that plugging into a random projector would be fine, but recently a VGA projector attached to the mini-display port was not detected (I »
For a while I have been meaning to play some modern indie platformers from Steam (like Super Meat Boy, Braid and Limbo). I have been pretty happy with the Wii Classic controller for playing games on a SNES emulator but it didnt work with Steam straight »
I have made the SICP Distilled site public. It is now a year since the SICP Distilled Kickstarter was funded, I originally thought it would take 5 months to complete and had a slightly different vision for what it would look like, massive thanks to all »
I was re-reading the first two chapters of SICP at the weekend as I am starting to prepare SICP Distilled and I was pleased to see: The value of expressing programs as sequence operations is that this helps us make program designs that are modular, »