This is a Caroline Shaw fan account

What if there were nice things. I love this performance of Caroline Shaw’s “And the Swallow” by Seattle’s Radiance Choir, recorded during lockdown in April 2020.

https://youtu.be/li4kUGBWl6o

#music #carolineshaw #andtheswallow

Transition timeline: 2016 vs. 2026

CONJECTURE: Every lambda-polytope generated by a family of Pure Type Systems is Rupert

A new version of Your Priors is available. Relaunch to update.

New in this version:
- Expected utility reductions for key internet Scotts
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements

*system design interview* The eagles are bottlenecked on Prometheus’ single liver. We need to scale the eagles

You think I’m impulsive, but I have been silently intending to do that exact thing for years

When the localization team suffers a rapid loss of fucks

Lightning struck my airplane this morning AMA

Very normal chain of thought
- I would like to up my “friend” game
- I would like a 10-pack of AptFeels

Yessss pilgrimage to https://mjt.org is a go

Software engineering is easy. All you have to do is isolate essential from inessential details

This is the way

This knowledge* must not die with me:

One of the Windows 3.x setup.exe files contains a short essay on Wassily Kandinsky and the Bauhaus movement.

*Someone please verify. I can’t reproduce my early ’90s experiment, as my floppies (not to mention my 386SX and its DJGPP install of strings.exe) are long gone.

#retrocomputing #kandinsky #bauhaus #windows3x

Remember when your grant proposal had to be about XML somehow? Good times

Many years later, as she faced the firing squad, Christina remembered that distant afternoon when she used her calculator to log into her laptop.

#NetBSD #HP48 #ThinkpadT21 #IrDA

Speaking of Sexton’s Transformations, fyi this is a #BarbaraSwan fan account

https://www.alphagallery.com/barbara-swan

#art #illustration

#AnneSexton #Transformations #poetry #typeface #Electra

I know just enough mathematics to be dangerous – I formalized models of type systems as a grad student – but I like typography, cute mascots, and thoughtful server rules, so here I be.

Professional interests: building reliable distributed systems; turning legacy-horror DSLs into languages with specs, debuggers, etc

Personal interests: choral singing, photography, poetry and vaguely gothic fiction, tinkering with formalisms

Nutrition facts: none, my content will not sustain you
Contains: queer and trans pride
May contain: lolwut

Follow requests are welcome, especially if we’ve interacted before.

#introduction

This world is just a little place,
Just red in the sky before the sun rises.
Hold hands, hold hands
That when the birds start, none of us is missing.
Hold hands, hold hands.

—Charles Wright, “Self-Portrait”

#CharlesWright #SelfPortrait #poetry