It’s bedtime here but I couldn’t help but post this quote by kragensitaker from reddit. I’ve always meant to get around to writing an explanation of why I think Computer Science is a lovely discipline. This addresses it in a very different way than I was hoping to but absolutely merits posting here. Well, a [...]
This is just a quick configuration post. On Archlinux, clojure, clojure-contrib and swank-clojure-git packages are already available from the AUR. I’m a big fan of Common Lisp and use it for most of my programming, so I wanted to be able to use any of the 3 common lisp implementations installed from distro packages along [...]
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Well, it’s been a long spell since the last paktahn release. There are reasons for it but I’m just glad we got the release out. The “big feature” of the release is AUR updates which I am happy to have implemented. I wouldn’t have been able to get it done if versioning support hadn’t been [...]
I’ve been using the Postmodern library in Common Lisp to access PostgresQL databases of late and it’s been a pretty good experience. That said, I had a little trouble using LIMIT and OFFSET to get DAO objects and wanted to put an example online in case anyone else has trouble with this. Future Postmoderners, May [...]
Things have been crazy lately but I’m not here to give a full update. I will say that there’s been good with the bad, family, friends and supporters all the while and that the bad is mostly the usual bureaucratic and financial troubles that are just a part of life. I’m trying to post more [...]
The last week has been thoroughly insane in ways both good and bad. As a gift, I had my thoroughly aged Nokia 6010 replaced by a shiny new Nexus One. Much as I would’ve liked an N900 they aren’t subsidized by any carrier and so will remain out of my price range. I’ve also switched [...]
A friend asked me for a simple tutorial. So here one is. Also, just because I can: My workflow roughly looks like: Start or clone git repository: [git clone $URL] OR [mkdir project; cd project; git init] Make some changes: HACK HACK HACK, ensure the files are tracked: [git add $FILES] Review my changes: [git [...]
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So, the last time I really posted a personal update I didn’t have many good things to say. I was a bit depressed. But I seem to have climbed out of that hole. Midterms are mostly over and I have a much better feel for my classes with them behind me. The only one I [...]
Over the labor day weekend, I had fun. I avoided dreary schoolwork, I played guitar, I hung out with cool people, I celebated my second anniversary with a lovely lady, I wrote code. One bit of code I worked on is a script to read in AT&T call logs and figure out the 5 people [...]
Here are a few video lectures I’ve enjoyed that simply never could have made it to Television. Too much of a niche audience I suppose. They’ll go from most comprehensible to non-nerds/programmers to incomprehensible to non-nerds/programmers. Soon I’ll post up something actually productive or cool. For now, it’s all school. I still really like Giles [...]