Every five years or so, I’ll do thorough retirement planning over a period of a few weeks. I’m back at it again. Suze Orman’s toxic, uninformed commentary. In the earliest days of thinking about retirement in detail, which was around the time I g...
I don’t often work on Windows, but there are a couple of times that I need to do so: If I want to share a program I’ve written with a Windows user. I obviously have to get it to compile on Windows. If I only have access to a Windows machine....
Here are some notes for myself as I’m getting betterr to run on Windows: Working with shared libraries on Windows is seriously not fun. The only way I got the program to run was to copy all DLLs and their dependencies into the directory with...
I’ve been a heavy user of the D programming language since 2013. The appealing thing about D both then and now is its potential as a glue language. Back in the old days, we’d talk about scripting languages as glue languages, with R and Tcl being t...
The wonderful reply guys on Mastodon. Yesterday, I posted this in case it helped someone else:
I ran into a strange problem today while attempting to use RStudio as my Python IDE. I don’t do all that much with Python, but since I work with data as part of my job, it’s inevitable that I’ll have to do some things with it (and I’m perfectly fi...
So the topic of reply gates is being discussed yet again. It seems like something that’s been around forever. Pre-internet, all media was reply gated. The people running newspapers, radio, and television stations decided who got to talk and who di...
I’m a big fan of Fossil. The only reason I use other Git services like Github is because others use it. Though I have to admit that it’s easier to click a button to create a repo than to add a new repo to a self-hosted server. A couple nice featu...
The D programming language continues to progress nicely. One sign of that is the lineup of speakers at DConf in September. I’ve never gone (most have been in Europe) but they’re always livestreamed. I actually committed to using D after seeing som...
I’ve made it to the end of another school. Unlike many faculty members, I enjoy the classes I teach and I enjoy working with my students, who are all great people.