Exercises from functional programming books in Clojure, Common Lisp, and Scheme. #lisp

Never heard of the 7GUIs challenge. Here is a proposal in Racket, by Matthias Felleisen himself. #scheme

  Listening to some ECM records while it’s raining.

Tired of mutt or mu4e? aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. (via HN)

Oz static site generation. Note that Oz is a “data visualization and scientific document processing library for Clojure built around Vega-Lite & Vega” (as found in Gorilla-REPL). #clojure

The Common Lisp Cookbook: Using Emacs as an IDE. When I switched to Doom a few weeks ago, I realized that it now has full support for SLY. #emacs

Having fun these days with the #WWDC19 mentions on Twitter. On the one hand, it’s much like reading plain spoilers during GoT; on the other hand, it’s a nice reminder that we’ll probably have to switch back to Linux earlier than expected. Sad but true.

Yesterday’s evening brunch:

Learn git concepts, not commands. Very nice tutorial about Git!

The Non-parametric Bootstrap as a Bayesian Model. (via @kaz_yos)

Statistical Methods for Machine Learning, by Larry Wasserman.

Is it worth trying another VCS? Even if free and open-source?

Lovely.

So I’ve heard that Apple iTunes will be discontinued soon. We will get seperate apps, like their iOS counterparts. I can understand that, although I will miss iTunes a lot. Sadly, this is when it reached a steady state of usability that it get dropped. RIP anyway.

If you are interested in functional PL and generative art, go check Szymon Kaliski’s website.

Dacein is an experimental creative coding IDE combining a few different ideas that I’ve been thinking about.

Now that I sorted out all the previous items, it’s probably time to go watch this (in)famous last season of GoT!

Handbook of applied cryptography. (via @CompSciFact)

Mathematics all-in-one cheat-sheet (PDF, 212 pp.). (via HN)

It looks like the right move, indeed. I stopped using Google products a while ago, and will probably end up deleting my Gmail account, which is now my de facto junk account for mailing, ads and the like. No need to wait any longer.

It’s like what everyone would like to have: Introducing Mercury OS. (via @jedisct1)

A Type of Programming, by Renzo Carbonara. (via HN)

  Listening to some Mix Chill while reviewing my Safari tabs and Twitter likes.

I just noticed that next to the deepl translator, we now have Linguee, a bilingual dictionary–available for iOS.

Didn’t know there were such a thing: The GHTorrent project. (via Greg Wilson)

Introduction to the Year of Emacs. (via Irreal) #emacs

Since I’m tired of the “new” R (read, all the stuff around tibble, or tribble, or whatever new name data frames got in the mean time), I thought I would just rely on Gnuplot and, why not, Javascript?

  The Bloody Arm, Lie Lover Lie.

Finally it happened! I managed to hold out until 11:00 last night to finish my movie.

Advanced Data Structures. See also Open Data Structures.

I wish I had read this earlier when I stopped myself using Textmate: Coming Home to Vim. The discussion around Vim philospohy for modal editing (verb, noun and adjective) is quite on the point. See, I’m not against Vim itself–I use it to edit those posts, btw–but we need to agree to make some compromise for editing purpose.

Your syntax highlighter is wrong. Interesting take on the importance of comments in code. This reminds me of the arguments advanced by Nikita Prokopov (aka tonsky) for developing his own color theme for various editors:

Alabaster highlights comments. Most schemes try to dim comments by using low-contrast greys. I think if code was complex enough that it deserved an explanation then it’s that explanation we should see and read first. It would be a crime to hide it.

The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (via HN).

  Beirut, The Flying Club Cup.

The Common Lisp Cookbook looks like an essential resource. #lisp

Variables are not values.

Updating Doom Emacs is so much fun compared to Spacemacs on the develop branch. You even get a pointer to check the diff on GH! #emacs

The reason I am using Altair for most of my visualization in Python. I can understand the why – I too find that Matplotlib is not that good when it comes to statistical graphics, and that’s why I used to use R, Stata, Gnuplot or even Mathematica for that purpose. That being said, Altair like D3js are great but they require much more work compared to statistical packages. That’s why DSLs are important. #python #dataviz

DuckDuckGo has been my default search engine since 1.5 years. But there’s more on the market apparently, e.g. startpage.com (via Jack Baty).

Ivre et je confonds le jour
Et la nuit je leur appartiens
A ces songes qui détourent
Hier et demain

  Arno, Human incognito.

Just in case I’m up early tomorrow again: Low-memory symbol indexing with bloom filters.

Always good to be remebered of why software projects take longer than you think.

Yet another CC license, with “no rights reserved.”

A practical introduction to the bootstrap: a versatile method to make inferences by using data-driven simulations, with code on GH.

Fancy Euclid’s “Elements” in TeX (via @hardmaru). #tex

Purely Functional Data Structures (PDF, 162 pp.), by Chris Okasaki. (via @newsycombinator)

Now reading Serious Python, written by Julien Danjou, as a sequel of The Hacker’s Guide to Python. #python

Burnout got an official ICD-11 code. (via HN)

Apple Accused of Selling ITunes Customers’ Listening Data. If true, this is really disappointing, to say the least.

I reconfigured my almost defunct Gmail account into mu4e. The fact is that since I’m using mbsync instead of offlineimap, I was missing the SubFolders Verbatim option to allow isync to recognize those funny “[Gmail]/” IMAP paths (or what Google invented as folders, which are no real folders, etc.). Now I am ready to do another round of cleaning! #emacs