Note: It looks like videos of the JuliaCon talks were uploaded to Youtube the day this post was finally published!
I was in Cambridge, MA for a few days the other week at JuliaCon, a small conference for the Julia programming language. Julia is a young language (started around 2014 …
This post is a narrative rant (in the same vein of Dan Luu's "Everything is Broken" post) about my problems one afternoon getting a Fancy New Programming Language to work on my laptop. Skip down for my thoughts on solutions.
A few folks here at the Recurse Center had nice …
For the past 9 years or so (February 2007 through April 2016), this website has run reliably despite being a weird machine: a custom prototype web application for archiving and sharing digital "artifacts" of all sorts. I remember a bold and sparkling afternoon at a coffee house in Santa Cruz …