I Was Today Years Old, Unfortunately

Making a favicon for your website is one of the simple pleasures. 

I like Cilk++. It’s so nice to just be like “Hey I want this for loop to have some parallelism” then only have to replace the “for” with “cilk_for”. 

You know what I haven’t thought about in while? Ruby. Maybe I need to polish off the old gemstone. 

You’d think after all the time I’ve spent on front-end dev I’d be able to at least write efficient CSS. You’d think. 

Went to React’s website to learn the Tic Tac Toe tutorial (it’s about time I got around to it) and was pleasantly surprised to see this. Way to go, React. 

Writing mergesort in Scheme makes me sooo grateful for python. And Javascript. And Java. And Ruby. And C#. Heck, I’m even grateful for C, at least it lets you access specific list indices.

It’s high time I dip my toes into Rust

Can never settle on just the right DPI setting for my mouse

For those of you who are worried about AI taking over the world, this is the sentence produced by a “neural network” (a fancy name for my relative frequency matrix) after I had it read Beowulf, Galen, Guinea, Little Women, Mansfield Park, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Call of the Wild. (All are freely available on Project Gutenberg in many filetypes including plain text, btw).

The MySQL dolphin is adorable