I just finished James Clavell’s shogun. At 1150 pages, and 48 hours in the audio book, it was quite an undertaking. Despite 40 years passing since it’s initia...
Read MorePaolo Bacigalupi’s latest novel is grim and brutal. The world of “The Water Knife” is transitioning from one order to another. Cha...
Embassytown is the best book I’ve read in a while. It successfully builds an interesting world by gradually giving the user new info...
Jesus Christ … where to begin. Initially, the Time Traveler doesn’t understand the natives’ language or behavior; calls them igno...
For most of my career I’ve been turned off by the entire JVM environment. I’m sure it’s rooted in the number of hours that I spent w...
# Upon a black field. The cursor blinks. # It's silence protecting its secrets. # The novice painstakingly pronounces incantation...
Through the deepness of the sky it races Fast as thought Into an ever expanding void Stretched through the aeons A red splotch o...
A couple of findings while debugging a relatively large Rails backed AngularJS project on an iPad Air 2. Not connecting over LAN T...
I’ve been interested in NLP for a while. And I’ve been into D for almost a whole month! I wanted to implement an NLP subtask, and co...
After exporting my blogger site and importing, everything was looking great, except one thing. The old site was still getting some (...
Since my last post, I’ve done a couple things that bring my D experience more in line to a real development cycle. I’ve become more ...
Why D In my free time, I’ve been trying to work with cpp lately, but have found many aspects of the process frustrating (dependency...
Bad Voltage Bad Voltage is the most eccentric book I read last year, and maybe ever. it is certainly the most cyberpunk book I’ve e...
Asimov’s longevity and prolificacy led him in a lot of directions. I enjoyed his two part history on the Roman Republic and the Ro...
A Fire Upon the Deep is a fantastic hard science fiction novel from retired Computer Scientist Vernon Vinge. The novel uses a dual...
Lately I’ve been going through the Open CV tutorials. I chose to go with the 2.4 version rather than 3.0, because, as of writing, th...
Right now I’m using MrHydr to edit this blog post. I really like it. It provides some necessary features without trying to do to muc...
The Black Company series has carved out a niche into my personal literary landscape. I read the titular novel as well as the sec...
For free time, books are in my top five. They sit after programming, but before exercise, videogames, and movies. I set a goal to re...