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Week of December 8, 2013

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Week of November 24, 2013

Marcus Aurelius and slavery in the Roman Empire

An analysis of the Stoic ruler's failure to stand up against slavery.

Review: ZeroMQ: Messaging for Many Applications by Pieter Hintjens

A valuable reference for the increasingly popular technology.

Review: Clojure Programming by Chas Emerick et al.

A wonderful introduction to my long-time favorite language.

Parsing sound change rules with Parsec: Part 2

Parsing phoneme class definitions and modifying user state

Parsing sound change rules with Parsec: Part 1

Establishing a BNF grammar for sound change descriptions

Hillis β-reduction in Haskell

Surprisingly much simpler in translation.

Hillis beta reduction improvements

Resolving some caveats in the β-reduction implementation.

Hillis beta reduction in Clojure

Implementing Danny Hillis' β-reduction outside of CM Lisp.

Disabling electric indenting in Emacs modes

A way to shim in a "mode-local" setting.

Post excerpts in Jekyll

Easy excerpts without a self-hosted install.