Long Trail 2023
My 2023 thru-hike of Vermont’s Long Trail
James Porter
Latest posts
MAZE: Solving "the World's Most Challenging Puzzle" with Python
Applying graph analysis to a beloved book from childhood
Creating a magical videobooth for a wedding
Some technical and aesthetic notes about building a surprise for the wedding of some friends
Goodreads Visualizer
I made a web page to visualize Goodreads activity
The Case of the Mysterious Memory Consumption
The story of a tricky bug
Hello Mesos
The tiniest Apache Mesos framework
Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful
I wrote some tests for my Emacs package
How to succeed at parsing without really trying
cheating by using Julia metaprogramming
Douglas Adams and Declarative Programming
some thoughts on The Hitchhikers’s Guide to the Galaxy
JavaScript: End of the Chain
How does property lookup bottom out?
Emacs Lisp: Closures Exposed
Some interesting features of an old language
Welcome to a crazy experiment
in which our hero begins an education of sorts; various ramblings