I have a copy of SICP, or as it is also known, The Wizard Book. This book is widely praised, but I can’t take the time to work my way through all of it. However, sometimes I jump into parts of it that look interesting. Today, we’ll see how to support multiple representations of data through tagging. This article is written in Haskell throughout, but at the start it will look a lot like the Lisp code in SICP. I have intentionally tried to recreate the SICP solution as closely as possible,…

Power Cat 2026-06-22 It's not a phase mom.

I had my first ever mention on a Spanish online radio/podcast show tonight. I'm feeling very "international" 😊 Esta noche me han mencionado por primera vez en un programa de radio o podcast online español. Me siento muy "internacional" 😊

I knew this would happen, but I just stumbled across one more Steam demo I want to showcase after posting my big demo roundup the other day. The game is called Wind Runners, and it's a 2D action roguelike / bullet hell / shoot 'em up in which you fly a lil plane around and shoot dudes who are shooting at you. There are a million games I could compare it to—Luftrausers comes to mind—but it feels like a good one of those. It mainly stood out to me with its really pretty mix of gorgeous 2D pixel…

A lot of people think of the number 13 as bad luck, but in this case it is good luck. Namely, I am announcing the 13th Annual Rule, Britannia Blogathon. I am setting it for September 18 to September 20, 2026. While many people think of Hollywood when it comes to movies, the fact is that the United Kingdom made many significant contributions to film over the years. From the Gainsborough melodramas to Hammer Films to the British New Wave, cinema would be much poorer without the British.ere are…

This past weekend I was listening to the Queens of the Stone Age 2013 album ...Like Clockwork while I was choring around the house. I love this album but I hadn't chewed on it in a year or two. The third track, The Vampyre of Time and Memory (link opens in Youtube), is a somber synthy piano piece under Josh Homme's confessional vocals. The song has always stuck with me, but due to what Jay Dragon has called "ludic pareidolia" I found my mind wandering to what it would mean to literalize the…

I spent a bunch of time this week glue-gunning LEDs into a T-shirt so I could dress up as the night sky. I gave up after LED #80, it looked good! I don’t think I’ve used a hot glue gun since I was a child, there were some real sense memories locked up in the activity. I was dressing up for a Space themed night at a Butlins 2000s weekender, this time for Charlotte’s birthday down in Minehead. Minehead is quite pretty, the Butlins less so but it was a lot of fun. On Friday we dressed as various…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background ig.. 😪- not feeling it 😠- no this is bad. 😡- this is really bad. 🤬- play this around me and im taking a gun out. for both of us. shake it off (mingyu) 🤬 this song doesn't exist. skyfall (minghao) 😠 i've tried with this song i really have, but it's just not for…

Keller, Murray, Ivory & Cabreros for The NYT: The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s. A beautifully-illustrated case for America’s king-sized vehicles being the main culprit for increased pedestrian deaths. The careful reader will remember that this “Big SUV hypothesis” was also highlighted by Brian Potter a while back, though it didn’t explain all of the increase. And of course my conspiracy theory may also be true, although if there are people who said a while back “hey, these big…

Pokémon is something of an autonomous force these days. It's the largest IP in the world, and essentially everything it does will be met with the loud cheers of fans the world over. This is especially true in the case of its mainline games, which have changed enormously over the years but consistently sold millions (often tens of millions!) of copies. Increasingly, the series has leaned into narrative and online play with features such as raids and even coop while changing its level design foci…

Status: Pre-heatwave day today, so it’s hot but it’s going to get hotter. Feeling quite tired anyway after yesterday’s excursion and have had continuous tinnitus all day which hasn’t happened for a while — usually it comes and goes, serving as a warning light for me to take a break. I’ve decided to lean into the football a bit, looking for more teams to follow over the World Cup alongside the obvious England. Argentina were a little underwhelming this afternoon and I’m going to give France a go…

A Lakelands setting post Most of the Unbound crave human worship, attention, or service, but not all of them do. Some of them lack any interest in humanity. While the Howling Rustic decided to make its own version of a terrestrial hominid, the Sulphur Herald remembered its former subjects. Long ago it held sway over the peoples of two planets: on Yir and its moon Sdikga it governed the drakemantids and amazons, while on Nkamvond it commanded the psanzomv, often called spacegnomes in the…

You know, I’m beginning to think that SwiftUI’s Commands API is not very good.

Tem um ditado que eu sempre gostei bastante, após ouvi-lo pela primeira vez há muitos anos, atribuído de forma apócrifa a Confúcio, quando na real é apenas um fruto da cultura popular. A sabedoria vem de escutar; de falar vem o arrependimento. Eu nunca vivi por essa filosofia, apesar de achá-la prudente. Sim, eu acho que eu sou um bom ouvinte (minha esposa e meus sócios podem ter outra opinião a respeito), e eu gosto de pensar que eu sempre soube escolher a hora de falar menos e escutar mais.…

Enough has been said about Tolkien's works that I won't much discuss the work here. Safe to say I now understand why the Hobbit holds the place it does in the canon of fantasy literature. Despite consuming much Tolkien-inspired media, I'd never read any of the Lord of the Rings series nor seen the Peter Jackson film series. I went into the book with the hope of being as untainted by outside interpretations and criticisms as possible.

Finished reading: The Permanent Problem by Brink Lindsey 📚Food for thought though I am not entirely sure of the solutions proposed.

Reviving an old blog feature. My coffee this week is Brazil Mogiana from Happy Goat, for pour over.

Featured Projects Three live Azure workloads I own end-to-end — CI/CD static delivery, AI-backed search on real content, and full-stack Blazor with actual users. 🔧 Episode Atlas Track TV progress at scale with per-user state and cloud-backed data. What it does: Per-user episode lists, “last watched” markers, and curated metadata links — so long-running franchises stay manageable. Tech used: .NET Blazor, Azure Static Web Apps, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, GitHub auth. Why it’s impressive:…

I'm at the rehabilitation center where Bunny is rehabilitating her broken shoulders and all the TVs in the place shut down, and it's suddenly quiet. Maybe not as silent as Rachel, Nevada, or maybe when a Las Vagas casino lost power (talk about dead silence—it was weird!), but still, it's eerie.

Meta — the same company that declared in 2021 that by now you’d be living in the “metaverse” — sold a few million camera glasses for pervs and, all of a sudden, the next future envisioned by Mark Zuckerberg’s unhinged mind is one where we all walk around wearing camera glasses powered by “artificial intelligence.” Yes, Silicon Valley CEOs believe the best way to curb screen addiction at 20 cm from your face is to strap screens 20 mm from your eyes. Silicon Valley operates like an insular small…

As a long time gamer who has never gotten into PC games, this is super interesting to me! 👾🎮

A post from the north-west corner of London, taking in canal-side pubs, Fullers 'London Pride', a prestigious private school, and more Wetherspoon's that anyone really need to be subjected to.I've sat on the Oxford Tube countless times as it pulls off the A40 at Hillingdon to pick up and set down a handful of passengers.Why do they get off there? I figured I'd hop off and see what I could see.Discovery one: Hillingdon covers a big area and its current GBG listed pub is a heck of a long way from…

While Bunny was otherwise occupied with a nurse I took the opportinity to look around outside. While there, I found this odd staircase off the side of a path: I'm not sure what the purpose of such a structure could be, perhaps a place to sit down? But there were benches along the path. Perhaps stairs to Narnia? Perhaps?

Not-so-fat Bike Winter was a total bust. We barely had any snow down in town. So little that I questioned whether I should bother with a fat bike any more, if winters were going to be like this. But we also have plenty of sand here. I love riding the shoreline of Washoe Lake in the winter so a bike that can traverse sand does have some value. There are some large sandy areas nearby that I've barely explored and a good sand bike could open up new riding options. Since most of my bikepacking is…

I felt many emotions seeing Keir Starmer announce his resignation outside Downing Street on Monday morning. Not one of them was sympathy. For those who've spent the day celebrating the Prime Minister, demanding we respect the human frailties of a hard-done-to public servant, of Starmer's cracking voice as he struggled through the last few lines of his speech, there's a straightforward reply. Where was his respect and sympathy for the protestors ruthlessly designated as terrorists, for the…

Most of the music I write about ranges from well known to iconic. I am not one of these people who takes pleasure in knowing about obscurities that other people don’t. However, I do have one intense fandom for a couple of guys who you are likely not to have heard of, Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine. I took the family to see them recently in a converted church in Kingston, NY, and the music sounded like it could have come from any time in the last five thousand years, or the next five thousand. My…

I feel like I’ve written about the idea that God does not coerce but instead lures us toward greater justice, beauty, and etc a few times already. So rather than focus on this, or indeed the relational nature of the text [Matthew 10:40-42], I want to point out that process thought insists that every small thing is important. In fact there are no ‘big things’ really – only collections of ‘small things’. Everything is made up of cells, cells are made of atoms, atoms are made of sub-atomic…

Last week, I shared my frustration with not getting a solution to work out for the new project I was working on–a design/build for the True Woman ‘27 Conference that Revive Our Hearts will put on at the end of September 2027. Over the weekend, I had a new idea on how to tackle the problem and was successful in pulling it off. The evolution of a solution As I mentioned last week, one of the logo variations had a “punched out” shape element. I wanted to punch out that shape from a div within the…