For the last two years, T. and I have been building Parts , a mapping tool for practitioners of a therapeutic modality called Internal Family Systems 1 . In this modality, a therapist works with a person’s “parts”, and a common practice for therapists, as part of their note-keeping, is to put together a map of these parts, and how they relate to each other. This is commonly done on paper, and, as…
BTS is currently the biggest musical group in the world. Although I was aware of them for a few years, I only recently took a deep dive into their history and their discography. Below, I want to share a few of their tracks that I came to love, as a fan of hip-hop who slowly but surely turned into a fan of BTS.
I’ve been working with Clojure for a couple of years already. I’ve done Clojure work as a contractor, and Parts, the project I spend most of my free time on, is written in it.
When we were in Taiwan this winter, T. organised a trip for us, and over a few days we visited Tainan, Chiayi, and Taichung. It was our second visit to Tainan, but the other two towns were new to us, as was travelling with two kids!
In our family, we have four languages between us: English, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Russian. When N. was born, I wanted to sing lullabies to her in all four.
The Mitsubishi Delica is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) light trucks in Taiwan. The iconic L300 variant (aka the Third Generation)1 has been manufactured here by China Motor Corporation (CMC), Mitsubishi’s local manufacturing partner, and is ubiquitous on the island. Even though the L300 has been discontinued in Japan in 1998, CMC has continued producing and modernising versions…
In my last lsp-related post, I wrote that I wasn’t a huge fan of static type checking. Well, that’s changed: I’ve tried Haskell (by building a simple Scheme implementation), and more recently, as part of a series of job interviews, I learned about Effect.