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The Second Gamer

Liana K made a great video ’splaining Simone de Beauvoir to gamers. I think if a typical gamer has any opinion of de Beauvoir, it’s not going to be a positive one; CHSommers wasn’t a fan.
So, if nothing else, making a video about some weird parts of feminism for gamers is a very against the grain thing to [...]

Posted at March 28, 2016 | read more

On Libraries, Reusability and Composability

There’s been a lot of brouhaha and schadenfreude regarding the recent failures in the NodeJS/NPM community. Essentially the problem / schadenfreude focuses on two aspects: A mutable package repository, allowing un-publishing of packages; this creates a number of practical & security problems. NodeJS’s ethos of “micropackages”; the package at the focal point of the issue was an 11-line package, to [...]

Posted at March 25, 2016 | read more

Tay and Alice

I’m very grateful to South Park’s season 19, for many things. Again, it’s season-long leadup to the punchline of “What is P.C. but the gentrification of language?” is brilliant.
But another line from the Season I really loved was “You’re thinking with your dick, Jimmy”, as Jimmy is rebuked for helping the ‘ad’ in female-form. It’s a reference to [...]

Posted at March 25, 2016 | read more

Consent and Etiquette

I wouldn’t want to be too abstract about all this. The short story “And Then There Were None” by E.F. Russell describes a society where consent is of the utmost importance. (More specifically, a free society, governed by two things: “Freedom - I Won’t”, and the notion of obligations). – Meredith Patterson makes some excellent observations/remarks. – I find the [...]

Posted at March 23, 2016 | read more

Jane Austen was a Bastard

Jane Austen strikes me as quite the bastard, from the stories she tells.
I mean that in an appreciative way. And I think the adaptations I’ve seen of Jane Austen’s work are happy, & don’t tend to show so much of an angry, bitter side to them. Pride and Prejudice Take Caroline Bingley, for example:
She’s (maybe) the [...]

Posted at March 20, 2016 | read more

Arduino Spaceship Interface in the Atom DSL

In my previous post, I discussed some of the simple details behind a pure C example programming an Arduino.
Using that understanding, I was able to implement a pure C implementation of the Spaceship Interface project. (“Spaceship Interface” = “green LED + 2 blinking red LEDs”, btw). The Atom EDSL is a DSL embedded in Haskell; and is advantageous [...]

Posted at March 13, 2016 | read more

Explaining Pure C Blink Example

I’ve been playing around with an Arduino Uno this past week. I came across this post from balau82: it gives a basic “blink” example program in C, and a high-level overview of how to come up with such a program.
The high-level overview wasn’t obvious for me, so I’d complement that blogpost with this, to explain in further detail. [...]

Posted at March 12, 2016 | read more

International Women's Day, Holidays, and Businesses

My previous post about “Silly Things to Say on International Women’s Day” got some attention on International Women’s Day this year. I thought I’d continue the tradition of writing about it this year: What I saw on Facebook this year was rather tame, but still interesting:
Facebook presented a large banner, “Happy International Women’s Day” emblazoned, with a minimum-effort-required [...]

Posted at March 10, 2016 | read more

On Anger and Activists

Oh, activists. <3 As a couple of examples, here’s IdleWord’s post about how to fix online advertising. – It’s an insightful, well-informed piece, with thought-provoking conclusions.
As another example, here’s Steve Johnson’s discussion of a ‘maximum wage ratio’. It’s less impressive, but still has some interesting discussion points. In both of the above pieces, the authors discuss an issue [...]

Posted at January 31, 2016 | read more

Drama in Romancelandia: On the Courtney Milan post about Bobbi Dumas

One doesn’t tend to think of romancelandia as discordant.
Perhaps I’ve not been reading romances long enough. You’d also think that a genre set on characters having Happily Ever Afters, where characters get along after conflicting disagreeing with each other (& where the problem is almost always “poor communication”), wouldn’t have a problem with authors getting along with each [...]

Posted at January 30, 2016 | read more

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