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Posts from The Tar Pit

October 4, 2019: Work plan for M10 2019
October 3, 2019: Târgoviște
September 27, 2019: The Tar Pit Lisp Blog Scaffolding genesis
September 20, 2019: Botworks: Trilemabot and Feedbot V patches, the autumn 2019 session
September 18, 2019: Варна nu-i Каварна
September 13, 2019: Common Lisp WWWism summary
September 6, 2019: Hunchentoot genesis
September 4, 2019: TMSR work: plan for 2019 M9, and a very brief discussion
August 30, 2019: Hunchentoot: requests and replies [b]
August 23, 2019: Hunchentoot: requests and replies [a]
August 16, 2019: Hunchentoot: taskmaster code review
August 9, 2019: Maramureș
August 5, 2019: TMSR work: plan for 2019 M8
August 1, 2019: Hunchentoot: acceptor code review
July 26, 2019: Hunchentoot: further architectural notes; and usage examples
July 20, 2019: Notes on Hunchentoot architecture
July 5, 2019: CL-WHO demo: The Coad Pit
July 2, 2019: TMSR work: interlude and plan for 2019 M7
June 12, 2019: A review of Hunchentoot's code history
May 28, 2019: CL-WHO genesis
May 22, 2019: Decalog
May 18, 2019: Schedule for Republican work, May-June 2019
May 13, 2019: Temeschwar
May 7, 2019: Mangalia
April 27, 2019: Sinaia
April 25, 2019: Feedbot [iii]: the IRC bot
April 8, 2019: Feedbot [ii]: the rss announcer
March 23, 2019: Feedbot [i]: the feed db; its manipulation; and the feed checker
March 19, 2019: A few changes to Feedparse's HTTP requester (prelude to Feedbot)
March 9, 2019: Gutenberg ASCII archive updated, now with 0.5% less junk
March 6, 2019: A feed parser for Common Lisp programs
March 1, 2019: An XML parser for Common Lisp programs
February 26, 2019: Project Gutenberg ASCII text archive
February 17, 2019: gutenberg.org part zwei, a dissection
February 10, 2019: Rsync'ing Project Gutenberg, a report
February 3, 2019: Schedule for Republican work, February - April 2019
January 26, 2019: Feedbot manual
November 30, 2018: Botworks manifest+Keccak regrind
November 4, 2018: Bucharest, part zwei: Herăstrău, Cotroceni
October 27, 2018: Hermannstadt, part two: the huge-ass photo shoot
October 22, 2018: Klausenburg, et alia
October 19, 2018: Kronstadt, et alia
October 17, 2018: Ηράκλειο
August 8, 2018: København
August 6, 2018: Hermannstadt
July 27, 2018: trilemabot [ii]: prefixed commands
July 8, 2018: A photographic tour of Bucharest; in today's issue: Lacul Morii
July 7, 2018: May-June 2018 Shithub SSH key harvest, data and preliminary analysis
July 2, 2018: The return of the lost son of the father of adalisp, now in a genesis
June 24, 2018: An early Lisp scriptlang prototype in Ada
June 12, 2018: The story of Prikoke
June 5, 2018: trilemabot [i]: introduction and self-voicing patch proposal
April 27, 2018: Interfacing Common Lisp programs with GPG the (nearly) painless way
April 23, 2018: Bucharest botanical garden in the spring, as viewed through a couple of camera lenses
April 18, 2018: Filantropica
April 16, 2018: Two on the parastas: Sieranevada and Cuibul de viespi
April 13, 2018: What is an operating system?
February 23, 2018: Egyptian div and mul "work": a correctness proof for the arithmetic operations in FFA Chapter 5
February 18, 2018: How to (not) dine in troglodyte lands in N very simple steps
January 19, 2018: A solution to the largest-of-seven FFACalc puzzle
January 15, 2018: On intellectual ownership
November 11, 2017: The story of the citadel on the hill, by a thicket
October 7, 2017: Brazil
October 1, 2017: Samurai Jack
September 22, 2017: The European Union at the end: a chronicle
September 12, 2017: Things that interest me; things that don't interest me
June 11, 2017: The doctorate as a (journey through a) tar pit
April 23, 2017: Greenspan's Assault on Integrity, annotated
April 17, 2017: The Tar Pit development log [ii]
April 15, 2017: Thimbleweed Park
April 9, 2017: How to convince a machine that two plus two equals five
April 2, 2017: The generative model of computing
March 26, 2017: Despre Oameni și Melci
March 19, 2017: The Tar Pit development log [i]
March 12, 2017: A declaration of war on the HTTP of Shit
March 5, 2017: The July Theses, translated and annotated
February 26, 2017: The problem of trust
February 24, 2017: Catch-22
January 29, 2017: Reversing lists, and on how formal methods are not an unambiguously useful tool for software verification
January 22, 2017: Player Piano
January 3, 2017: Let's find out why most educational institutions yield graduates that make dumb (or otherwise unknowledgeable) people: A companion piece to Grade Inflation and La ce imi serveste mie radicalurile?
November 26, 2016: Deșteaptă-te, române!: The dissection of a national anthem
November 6, 2016: I wrote a blog.
November 5, 2016: On the unambiguous usefulness of tools (in software and elsewhere)
October 22, 2016: Day of the Tentacle
September 18, 2016: Placing the cornerstone for The new Tar Pit: Much like the old one, only slimmer and more maintainable
August 22, 2016: Freedom is Slavery, or how and why everything costs: On the pitfalls of doublespoken equality.
August 18, 2016: On system reliability, or, a top-down approach to (dispel the myth of) "software engineering"
August 7, 2016: On the future of computing hardware
July 24, 2016: The young Boy, the brave Man and the old Man (fabellae hermeticae)
July 16, 2016: We
May 29, 2016: On security
May 14, 2016: Further on the myth of "software engineering"
May 3, 2016: slither.io, and a few thoughts on the unfairness of nature
April 29, 2016: The Tar Pit: about [ii]
April 24, 2016: Ok, I was wrong, it seems that Google is indeed "making you stupid"
April 9, 2016: Academic hogwash: an empirical study thereof: In which we analyze the circular motivations behind academic publishing. Probably a rehash of some other essay, but it's ok to do it nowadays.
March 12, 2016: When the law does more harm than good, or an exercise in independent thought
February 14, 2016: On the failure of marketing (and civilization in general)
January 30, 2016: Category theory and its application in software engineering
January 16, 2016: Cloud software is unreliable [ii]: Or, the cloud is unreliable.
December 19, 2015: Europe at the end of 2015: a chronicle: A second piece of synthetic journalism.
November 22, 2015: Android, the bad and the ugly
November 8, 2015: Glasgow Haskell Compiler no longer suitable for teaching
August 29, 2015: Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania
August 9, 2015: The myth of "software engineering"
July 20, 2015: Conservatism meets liberalism: A critique of modern politics.
July 11, 2015: The linguistic barrier of operating system design: A proposal to redesign the OS architecture from first principles.
June 20, 2015: Aferim!
May 3, 2015: Humanity's informational archive™
March 8, 2015: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo, and the absolute necessity of offending people: Je ne suis pas Charlie, mais je pense encore
February 28, 2015: Password security, a game theoretical approach
February 14, 2015: With our balls clean: Or how Homo sapiens survived in the dark ages of the first personal computers.
February 7, 2015: The inevitable transition back into religiousness
January 25, 2015: The Blackwell series
January 2, 2015: Your worth to humanity: A thought experiment on the Renaissance man.
December 26, 2014: Bitcoin as infrastructure [iv]
December 20, 2014: Interstellar, or why deus ex machinae in science fiction are a bad idea
December 6, 2014: On usability, a case study
November 16, 2014: On the inherent harmfulness of political correctness
November 8, 2014: LinuxCon Europe 2014
October 5, 2014: The mathematics and philosophy of hyperoperations: Another dive into the world of mathematical foundations
September 27, 2014: How and why systemd has won
September 20, 2014: Online media is feeding on your tears: In which I publicly shame the rubbish that is new media.
September 8, 2014: The Walking Dead
August 16, 2014: Building business, or why (some) Gypsies are smarter than (most) Romanians: A case study on self-regulating systems.
August 9, 2014: Bitcoin as infrastructure [iii]
August 2, 2014: The Tar Pit: the first year: A quantitative analysis.
July 12, 2014: Type algebra: the semantic ambiguity of nested lists: A short incursion into limitations of algebraic types.
June 21, 2014: Broken Age
June 8, 2014: Maybe I was wrong about that commenting thing: Re-dissecting the thorny issue of blog comments.
June 1, 2014: Bitcoin as infrastructure [ii]
May 24, 2014: Re: Go-to statement considered harmful: Yet another rant on the difficulty of the discipline of programming.
May 17, 2014: On the difficulty of discussing musical works
April 27, 2014: Bitcoin as infrastructure [i]: In which I argue that Bitcoin is more fundamental than mere currency.
April 12, 2014: I die when I look in the mirror.
March 29, 2014: On numbers, structure and induction: Peano arithmetic for the dumb
March 22, 2014: 3D printing: what you (probably) haven't considered (yet): A few predictions regarding the future of open hardware.
March 15, 2014: Some of the things I've read: Previously dubbed "On reading".
February 23, 2014: Grim Fandango
February 16, 2014: Passwords versus passphrases: A layman's analysis of XKCD's "Password Strength".
February 9, 2014: On post-religion: In which I coin a new term for popular culture.
January 19, 2014: The mechanics of socialism: Socialism analyzed from the point of view of an engineer.
January 2, 2014: The Tar Pit: changes [iii]: Journal entry for The Tar Pit version 0.3.
December 22, 2013: I have no mouth, and I must scream
December 8, 2013: Romania at the end of 2013: an exercise in geopolitics: A piece of synthetic journalism.
December 1, 2013: On the rights of animals
November 10, 2013: On context awareness in computing: An analogy between natural language and computing.
October 6, 2013: J.J. Abrams tried to pull a Wrath of Khan and failed: 'An analysis of Star Trek: Into Darkness.'
September 22, 2013: Haskell, the Lego of programming: In which I argue the utility of functional programming in education and day-to-day activities.
September 18, 2013: A change of mentality: Romanian mentality is changing, only not in the way we expect it to.
September 12, 2013: Cloud software is unreliable: A weak argument.
August 31, 2013: Composition operators: pipes: In which we describe Unix pipes using application and composition.
August 26, 2013: The Tar Pit: changes [ii]: A review of additional changes made to enhance The Tar Pit's look.
August 24, 2013: Romania's dumb nationalism: Critique on today's Romanian nationalism.
August 18, 2013: Conversation view in Mutt: Making some elements of Mutt's user interface look more like Gmail.
August 15, 2013: ROSEdu Haskell workshop, first edition
August 11, 2013: Religion and the closed world assumption: An essay on the formalisms behind atheism and the relevance of religion in modern society.
August 10, 2013: The Tar Pit: changes: A few changes are made to The Tar Pit's inner plumbing.
August 7, 2013: The Tar Pit on Github: The Tar Pit goes Open Source.
August 4, 2013: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
August 1, 2013: On art: Lucian shares his views regarding art.
July 29, 2013: The Tar Pit: about: The Tar Pit's description becomes available.
July 27, 2013: The Tar Pit: technicalities: A dive into technical aspects of The Tar Pit.
July 25, 2013: The Tar Pit: an introduction: Which introduces the reasoning behind the decision to create The Tar Pit.
July 22, 2013: First post: In which the journey through The Tar Pit begins.