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Why I chose Rust for Basket

Explaining why I wrote basket in Rust instead of CHICKEN Scheme.

Reflecting on Transducers

Thoughts on my transducers egg for CHICKEN Scheme, and how that colours my thoughts on Scheme and the standardization efforts overall.

1M metres later - Replacing my car with an e-bike

A review of my Heybike Cityscape, and a look into going car-free in Colorado.

Book review: Bernoulli’s Fallacy

A book review of Bernoulli's Fallacy, a criticism of modern probability and statistics.

Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone (Part 2 of ???)

It's been about half a year since I wrote my [original post](/blog/2020/12/06/Librem-5-Evergreen-vs-Pinephone/) comparing the Librem 5 and Pinephone. The original post saw some controversy as well as quite a bit of attention on [Hacker News](//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25338633). Surprisingly, for a market dominated by new tech every year, there remains quite a bit of interest in these two…

Book review: The Little Typer

A book review of my journey through dependent typing.

Don’t define functions inline in your public headers

Thoughts with regards to having inline definitions in dynamic library headers.

Can email not suck?

Spurious thoughts I had thinking over email and email clients.

Rust is cool – Enums

I've been using Rust a lot lately, and wanted to talk about enums!

Librem 5 Evergreen vs. Pinephone (Part 1 of ???)

Huzzah! I recently received my Librem 5 (Evergreen) from [Purism](https://puri.sm). The Librem 5 is a smartphone that runs an otherwise standard linux kernel. However, unlike Android which also relies on the linux kernel under the hood, the Librem 5 uses a GNU userspace, adapted for mobile. This makes it more akin to your typical laptop in some ways, although the form factor still resembles a…