Interview With Matheus Moreira
A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.
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Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto
Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.
On the Renaissance
I admire the Italian Renaissance.
Minimal Compilers
Projects like QBE and Mir approach GCC performance with 1/10 as much code
Interview With Claude Roux
Through LispE, Claude Roux researches neuro-symbolic AI incorporating elements of Haskell and APL
Lambda Calculus in Janet
While implementing languages in Lisp is easy, implementing Lambda calculus in Lisp is even easier!
Interview With John Earnest
John Earnest (Internet_Janitor) empowers creativity with Decker, WigglyPaint, Lil, oK!
Interview With Nathan Goldbaum
Nathan Goldbaum helped make Python multithreaded! He shared his fine thoughts and insights on many topics like Mercurial and Jujutsuwith me.
Interview With Steve Klabnik
Steve Klabnik wrote the Rust Book, Jujutsu for Everyone and worked at Oxide
Interview With Steve Klabnik
Steve Klabnik wrote the Rust Book, Jujutsu for Everyone, worked at Oxide etc.
Poesía épica
He aquí unas traducciones en versos castellanos La Divina Comedia Bartolomé Mitre (1894) tambien escribió sobre la teoría del tradutor .
Can Macros Tame Crud?
I want to make a forum, easy enough. An MVP only needs to:
Sketching Janet 2
A growing collection of ideas to make the best programming language ever
Unity of Paradigms
Map/filter/reduce, APL and Relational Algebra seem to be the same
Interview With Akseli Lahtinen
KDE Plasma developer and game builder
Interview With Bakpakin
Bakpakin made Janet. I asked him about the project and community.
Interview With ZDSmith
ZDSmith lives notation as a tool of thought, making shorthands, a requirement gathering language, porting J to Janet and…
Gradual Automation With Do Nothing Scripts
Save time and mental load with this gradual automation methodology
Interview With Susam Pal
Susam builds tiny, lightweight, minimalist tools for programmers and scholars.
Interview With Matklad
Matklad built a lot of Rust tooling and now works at Tigerbeetle.
Interview With Hillel Wayne
Hillel Wayne breathes formal methods.
Interview With Icefox
Icefox is building Garnet, a small Rust
Interview With Technomancy
Technomancy made Leinigen, leads the Fennel project and makes beautiful games!
Exploring Janet
A Gorgeous new Clojure-like with native compilation
Iraq War Decision
How did the US “sleep-walk” into invading Iraq and killing a million people.
Einige Nationalkonservative
Interessante frühere Mitläufer, die nicht lange bei den Nazis gut angeschrieben waren
Python is against Backwards Compatibility
I have unreasonable opinions here.
Jangal Movement
A constitutionalist revolt in WWI Iran turned into a Soviet insurgency
Jujutsu
Git is dead, long live Jujutsu!
Janet Commonplace
Questions, resources and thoughts about Janet, a minimalist Clojure-like with native binaries.
Macros
Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Janet all handle macros different. Who’s right?
Future of Scheme
Best implementations in 2025 These are all batteries-included with little care for standards:
Asearch For
??? Since curiosity first cried I’ve sought without end hope, grief-sick I spied th’infinite, soared mong the platonic spheres and reached heaven Alas, a prisoner of my fate, my mortal being
Which Language Has the Most Words
How many words do we have with wave, waves, wavey, wavelet and wavelets? Might Webster or Johnson have built a different tradition of dictionary making?
On Meaning and Life
Self-sovereignty or Nietzsches Wille zur Macht, the need for freedom is a moral good.
China's Economy
Will the 21st Century be China’s?
PostScript
PostScript is fascinating concatenative language of great power, used in PDFs of all things!
Ontology
Semantic Web, RDFs, triple stores…
Languages and Power
How does brevity relate to a language’s power? What else matters?
Sapir Worf Programming
Do different programming languages influence how you think? Obviously!
Phonetic vs Phonemic Spelling
spelling reform to meaningfully move in a phonetic direction A phonetic respelling would destroy the languages, because there are too many dialects without matching pronunciations. Though rendering historical texts illegible, a phonemic approach would work. But that would still mean most speakers have 2-3 ways of spelling various vowels. You could predict pronunciation from spelling, but not…
Criticisms of Racket
I like Racket but others don’t. I’ll collect their objections.
Writing as Tool of Thought
https://paulgraham.com/writing44.html Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. https://mikegrindle.com/posts/write-to-think
Persian Christianity
Few Persians today know the period between Darius and the Islamic conquests well, about their region’s Christian past.
Is AI the End of Programming Languages?
Karpathy and fans call English the hottest new programming language. I guess COBOL’s retro now.
WIP Coupling Language and Geography
Historical linguistics has a lot to teach us about API/DSL design. While a decades old codebase may be a crime scene, human languages have endured magnitudes more churn!
Incentive Problem in American Justice System
Swiftness and certainty of punishment beats severity, the American system focuses on severity. No US court gives speedy trials (violating Model Time Standards).
Notes on Persianate India
In the 1820s, the East India Company replaced Persian with English
How to Learn Persian
Learning Tajiki Persian is faster and more eloquent!
Touring Older Persian Grammars
Two hundred years of scholars and adventurers learned and taught Persian to yet more adventurers and scholars