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What started out as an idea is now officially available to try! Introducing the beta version of tendril-wiki, trying to bring what I love from TiddlyWiki and Hugo and make it my own!

Something that is really hard to capture with a type system is how values change over time. For example, I could have a type of null when I boot my app, but then have that same data structure have a type string after a certain point in time. There’s not a great way to tell type systems, “after a certain series of events, if this process is still running, this will be of a certain type”

Finnish summer weather is so nice that it tricks you into thinking that winter doesn’t exist.

The more I use Rust, the more I appreciate how good the built in tooling is. Not having to configure separate test runners, packagers, package managers, etc for each project results in a huge reduction of mental overhead and allows you to just focus on writing code

RE: this, I started a TiddlyWiki meets Hugo project to try and get all my info in the same format.

Thinking about what sort of tools and processes I can change to tighten up the collection, curation, creation loop.

What is it about analog photography that is so satisfying? The feeling of all the mechanical parts? The absence of social pressure to edit and post? The finality of a roll of film?

Of all the Finnish cultural traditions, I think I enjoy sauna the most.

A quick overview on exporting lua code as modules

“humans are quickly overwhelmed by concurrency and find it much more difficult to reason about concurrent than sequential code. Even careful people miss possible inter-leavings among even simple collections of partially ordered operations.”

• H. Sutter and J. Larus. Software and the concurrency revolution.

The fact that source code starts its life as text is part of what makes wrapping my head around concurrent programs difficult. Closure syntax like that in Rust’s std::thread::spawn certainly help, but it still gets very tricky to keep things straight. I wonder what a non text interface for concurrent programming would look like…