I’ve been working in Rust for a few weeks now and I’ve had some strong, if mixed, feelings about the language, its tools, and its libs. Impressive performance characteristics The Initial results ...
My First Moment of C++ Nirvana
I make my living working with web scripting languages. In my free time however I’ve been in an eccentric orbit with C++ for years, periodically diving deep into the STL gravity well, basking in the...
Riding the Train: A year of Freedom and Restriction
Opulence and squalor, isolation and confrontation, the cosmopolitan and the parochial. In the year that Jocelyn and I have been in New York, what has struck me the most is the contradictions. The c...
Quick Review: Coder Metrics
Codermetrics by Jonathan Alexander My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read the library copy. Definitely going to buy my own.This book describes methods for utilizing simple (mostly) data to give a rich pictur...
Review: Consider Phlebas
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks My rating: 2 of 5 stars I was really disappointing in this novel. I was expecting a much more intellectual and meditative book. This is definitely more of a straig...
Review: Shogun
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 initial publication, it remains fairly popu...
Review: The Water Knife
Paolo Bacigalupi’s latest novel is grim and brutal. The world of “The Water Knife” is transitioning from one order to another. Characters are trying to figure out how to survive in a harsh and un...
Review: Embassytown
Embassytown is the best book I’ve read in a while. It successfully builds an interesting world by gradually giving the user new information, while working the narrative. The setting for the book i...
Review: The Time Machine
Jesus Christ … where to begin. Initially, the Time Traveler doesn’t understand the natives’ language or behavior; calls them ignorant and debased. Then he attributes their indolence and ignoranc...
Quick Update: Kotlin
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 wrestling with the earlier versions of eclipse while at university...