Lying system calls
Only Debian hackers are likely to grok this. I just spent a week, maybe more, trying to look into a variety of very bizarre build failures for some packages, after building and installing newer...
View ArticleEvidence for Macroevolution
On Facebook recently, my brother asked why, if “macroevolution” is real, there aren’t more variety “in between” the species that exist today. I thought the answer to that question might be worth...
View ArticleIs the World Getting Better, or Worse?
A FaceBook friend posed this question. It was a good opportunity to give a reasonable summary of my current thoughts on the world, so I’m also placing my answer here. (Revised 23 January 2014) Better....
View ArticleSuggested Improvements to the UC Merced “Expanding Your Horizons” Event
This is an open letter to the Expanding Your Horizons network, and to the Women in Science and Engineering of UC Merced, in regards to the disappointing experience we had with the Expanding Your...
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Japan Trip, Days 1 and 2
(Pictures in this post are sparse; my photo album in Facebook is shared publicly, so provided you have an account, you can see the full set of pictures there.) I’ve been wanting to make a trip to Japan...
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Farewell to a Long-Held Email Address
I no longer have access to micah@cowan.name. I now answer to micah@addictivecode.org I’ve had the @cowan.name for over a decade. You’ll find Google search results for it up the wazoo, long-term mailing...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with the Star Wars Prequels?
This was in response to a question by my brother Tim on his Facebook feed. Putting it here because it should be somewhere more permanent than a Facebook comment. Here’s his post: I don’t get why the...
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A units-of-measure implementation in JavaScript
I made something kinda interesting this week in JavaScript. It probably qualifies as “over-engineering”, but it was for my use, to meet my needs, and I had making it, and I’m having fun using it (so...
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StarfishJS
I’ve finished porting a substantial chunk of (now completely) my friend Mars Saxman‘s Starfish—a C program for generating seamlessly tiled procedurally-generated wallpapers—into HTML5/JavaScript. You...
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Training Jam 2016 post-mortem
Sunday was the final day of the inaugural Training Jam event. A not-quite-two-day game-creating jam hosted by OpenSesame, a curator/marketplace for electronic learning solutions. It took place at...
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