Dear Guy That Signs All His Email With a PGP Key,
Before sending any more email, please consult the following brief checklist:

Do the recipients of your email have access to your public PGP key?
Do the recipients of your email give a damn about who wrote your email?

Hint: if you cannot answer yes to at least one […]

Sometimes it is good to be reminded of these things.

I work as a software engineer. It’s a pretty swank gig. I get paid to build ideas.
Building, of course, has traditionally been a physical enterprise. If I suddenly time-shifted into an English-speaking village at the turn of the ninth century and tried to convince a passing gentleperson I build ideas […]

I’d like to learn Lisp.
I’ve dabbled in Scheme, I’ve poked at Python, but I’d really like to sit down and write a substantial piece of Lisp code [1].
Lisp seems to be the ultimate judo in algorithms, and there are no end of essays on the Web to convince you of that. Lisp practitioners almost […]