2021-06-17: The context behind algorithmic playlists I don’t always listen to my Spotify “daily mixes,” which are …

2021-01-10: quiet on State Street

2020-08-21: When to leave the room Feynman’s quip “if you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the …

2019-09-13: Syntax trees, APIs, templates, and languages My old pal Tim St. Clair recently lamented about the state of configuration languages on Twitter: …

2019-08-04: Sometimes you can’t even improve what you do measure As part of my Sisyphean quest to find a bicycle computer that doesn’t make me want to start …

2018-12-16: Operas summarized briefly Carmen (Bizet, 1875): Man disregards advice from woman, with grave consequences. Orfeo ed Euridice …