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Hey all! I was going through my blog post backlog and found this draft from 2019-06-05. Thought I’d just throw it up on the blog: there’s some useful stuff about Haskell’s FFI here, and I also wax poetic about software...

Hello all as you can see, the blog looks different! it used to look like this it was themed after stardew valley. it was cute and i liked it a lot. The reasons I decided to give it a visual...

toki! mi wile e nasin pona pi toki nanpa lon toki pona. mi kepeken nimi pu taso. ni la mi ken ala toki e nimi san (3), e nimi likujo (7), e ante. mi pilin pona tawa nanpa ni taso:...

open musi jan pi wile sona li toki tawa mi e ni: “sina toki kepeken toki pona tan seme? jan seme li toki sama?”. mi toki e ni: “mi toki kepeken toki pona tan ni: ona li musi. kama pi...

toki. sina lukin e pakala toki mi la sina o toki tawa mi. mi o pona e lipu ni. jan sin li toki sona e ni: “nimi ‘pi’ li sama ala sama nimi ‘of’ lon toki Inli?”. jan sona li...

toki. mi wile pali e nimi suli kepeken nimi wan. sina lon ilo Siko la sina kute e nimi ni: mi tawa tawa tomo mi. nimi ni en nimi “mi tawa tomo mi” li pana e tan sama. nimi tu...

toki pona is a tiny conlang created by Sonja Lang. I am not here to write a toki pona tutorial, that has been done a hundred times over by many people a hundred times smarter than I am. No, I...

tenpo suno pini la mi open e ijo musi. mi wile pali e lipu 100. lipu ni li lipu wan. mi sona e jan pi toki Inli ala lon ilo Twitter. tan la mi wile ante e lipu pini tawa...

I like @visakanv’s do 100 thing idea. I haven’t tried it, and if I’m being honest, the idea of committing to doing 100 of anything seems pretty intimidating. My ADHD is a powerful force. But I’ve been reworking my blog...

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about the discord on the blog. That changes right now. I’ve spent the last few days overhauling the place, adding a starboard, role reactions, and so much more. I think that it now...

The other day, my partner and I were competing to see who could solve the day’s Wordle the quickest. She got it in 4 guesses. I… didn’t get it after all 6 guesses. In an effort to not repeat that...

Motivation I’ll admit it: I don’t know what a neural network is. I have gotten by \(n\) years of my life successfully without picking up more than a precursory knowledge of it. It’s made up of neurons, weights, and biases,...

Today I read a news article that described a traumatic accident that happened a few years ago to a 19 year old named Alex. They had decided to climb on top of a parked train. This train was the kind...

A few days ago, I posted Python’s Itertools in Pure Raku and I got quite a few responses asking me to elaborate on these examples. This page will then act as a useful addendum to the Python to Raku nutshell...

Python’s itertools package is the gold standard for working with iterable streams of data. It always irked me that Python needed an entire package to do things that I felt like the base language should easily support. I know Raku...

Preface It’s been a few months since I looked at Raku. Last time I fiddled with it was when the language finally took the leap and renamed itself from Raku to Raku. Heck, I’m still in the old Raku GitHub...

toki a! mi li jan Tyler Tala. tenpo suno pini luka la, mi open kama sona e toki pona! toki pona li toki lili. mi wile toki mute! sina wile toki poka mi la, o pana e lipu tawa mi...

What is a number? Numbers should have a couple distinct features as, say, members of a ring: an addition and multiplication operator, associativity, commutativity, and the distributive property. Even more fundamentally, adding two numbers together should probably give you back...

Foreword: I am not an epidemiologist and I don’t claim to be. I am, however, a math major and an academic and I feel like I’ve done my due dilligence in reporting this accurately and correctly. The full code used...

Hey all. Short post this time. I’ve been hard at work launching equalize digital, and we just came out with our first project, Immutable Coffee. It’s a live, one-on-one platform where you can chat with experts and get your problems...

You wake up in a cold sweat, beads of salty adrenaline pouring down your forehead. The entire night, you were tossing and turning and dreaming an awful nightmare. You let your mind drift towards the dark underbelly of your life’s...

I’ve been hard at work for the past few weeks at my new startup, equalize digital. But today, on a whim, I picked up Redis and was immediately awed at its flexibility. I knew I had to write a little...

Last week, I played my first D&D session with a couple of old friends from high school theatre. It was super fun and I haven’t really gotten it off of my mind since. I was reading up on the game,...

If you haven’t seen it, there’s a clip that’s been going around of Tucker Carlson talking about the “rescue of Ilhan Omar”. As much as I don’t want to direct more traffic to Carlson’s Twitter account, the rest of this...

… and other myths people tell themselves to sleep well at night… Hatred is a strong emotion, and too often it’s one born out of ignorance. I don’t like tossing around the phrase “I hate…” often unless it’s with regards...

Jamq (Just Asynchronous Messages and Queues) is a language I’ve been tossing back and forth in my mind. Here’s what I’m thinking about: # learn X in Y minutes, where X = Jamq #{ Jamq is centered around the idea...

Hey all. I’ve been considering changing my username around the web. I created the name aearnus a few years ago from the entropy of the universe, and I liked the way it sounded. But now I’m applying for jobs, and...

Today, I wrote a little program to download and view entries off the SCP website. For the uninitiated, the SCP website is comprised of a community of horror writers who write stories centered around a cohesive fictional universe where the...

Hey all – sorry for the RSS spam, but this is worth it. My friend Amelia started a blog, and you all should check it out and follow it. She’s the smartest person I know and this is definitely putting...

On the first day, there was light. On the second day, there was silicon. And on the third (?) day, there was assembly. Screens were overfilled with the grace of bytecode shorthand. Three letter opcodes were all the information that...

Ever since I was little, I’ve been enamored with physics simulations. There’s something so innately satisfying about having a world at your fingertips to interact with as you please. That interest has rekindled in me over the past few days...

There is beauty in all forms of intentional design. Programming languages are no exception. Presented below is a collection of anonymous functions from various programming languages. Some languages provide the ability to form both closures, anonymous functions which save the...

Over the past couple of days, I’ve been working on a Haskell script to do symbolic differentiation. Despite the fact that I’m more than a few semesters into a math degree, I’ve learned a ton while working on this little...

PEP: 1985 Title: Extended __future__ Behavior Author: The Late BDFL, Aearnus, @TristanBomb Status: Paradoxical Type: Standards Track Created: 1-Apr-2025 Python-Version: 7.8++136-Qubit Post-History: 1-Apr-1985, 1-Apr-2019, 30-Mar-2025, 31-Mar-2025, 1-Apr-2025 Abstract This PEP documents the semantics of cross-temporal module inclusion, contained within __future__....

(comics made by the wonderful @TristanBomb) In my last post, I talked about this bit of code for implementing a Maybe ADT in Raku: role Maybe[::A] { } sub just(::A $x --> Maybe[::A]) { class Just does Maybe[::A] { has...

While reading through the docs for Raku’s multi-dispatch, I noticed something familiar: the language chooses which multi function to call depending on which routine’s signature matches the argument first. Since Raku uses the smartmatch operator ~~ to match up type...

It’s rare that I find a language that I truly feel innovates upon established conventions and features. Raku came out in late 2015 to little fanfare – it was written off by the Perl community as unnecessary change and by...

This post was written on March 22nd, 2019. Many of the features shown here are either liable to change (especially implementation-wise) or have yet to be implemented. Charm is a type safe concatenative programming language. It promises a lightweight, interoperable...

I read an op ed a while back talking about how millennial tend to burnout much quicker than previous generations. They explained it through the fact that there’s an intense and constant amount of pressure on the average millennial to...

Hello! If you didn’t hear, the University of Arizona just hosted the fourth annual Women’s Hackathon, a three day event for women in tech and feminist allies. I went to the hackathon and I had a hell of a time....

Hey all. I’ve created a discord server to discuss programming language theory, a common topic on this blog. If you’ve enjoyed my musings about programming languages, or you just came from Google and you want to chat with a bunch...

A big topic in the study of ecology is the idea of biodiversity. Like everyone learned in middle school, it’s the idea that an ecosystem needs a lot of different species to be healthy. Programming languages also make up a...

A Running List of Ruby Things I Didn’t Know Came From Smalltalk Blocks (as a whole) Do blocks and Enumerator (the Ruby Enumerator#each do ... end common usage is referred to as a loop object in Smalltalk) Fixnum#upto Using #collect,...

A while back, I was talking to a friend on the Esolangs discord server. I was in the middle of working on a project in the Ruby language, so we ended up on the topic of Ruby. Me, being a...

For some God awful reason, my most popular repo on Github is syscall-rootkit. It’s a tiny Linux kernel module that intercepts syscalls to read(2) and write(2). As of writing this blog post, it has 11 stars and 8 forks. Fingers...

A Lisp Philosophy: All code is data and all data is code. From this, we can deduce a few things. Most code interacts with data through subroutines of some sort, taking in arguments or a global state, then subsequently returning...

Without any sort of introduction, here’s the video I’m going to be discussing. Even without any explanation, it’s beautiful to space out and watch. This video depicts modular multiplication on a circle. That is, I’ve taken a number line (in...

So I happened upon http://resl.xyz/average-font/ and I wanted to create something similar. Previously, I had made a dumb, possibly ToS breaking script that scrapes http://dafont.com/ and downloads the top 1000 or so fonts. You can download that script here. Some...