wolframite: An interface between Clojure and Wolfram Language (the language of Mathematica). It works like a charm with latest release of Wolfram engine on macOS. #clojure #mathematica

Rainbow array algebra: I really like syntax-highlighted math notation and all those pretty diagrams. See also MathTools. #mathematica

QuickSort in 61 characters:

quicksort = # & @@@ {# //. x : {__} :> (## & @@ Reverse /@ GatherBy[x, (# < x[[1]] &)])} &

osxphotos looks like a blessing to manage iPhoto library. The same applies to imessage-exporter. #apple

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015.

So, while I agree that it’s wrong to generalise that ‘Perl 6 killed Perl’, I would say that Perl 6 was a symptom of the irreconcilable internal forces that killed Perl. Although, I also intend to go on to point out that Perl isn’t dead, nothing has actually killed Perl. Killed Perl is a very stupid way to frame the discussion, but here we are. Perl’s decline was cultural

I’ve seen a number of editors grow popular and then wane. At various times I’ve seen Emacs, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Atom, SlickEdit, gedit, Notepad++, Sublime, NetBeans, Visual Studio, Xcode, IDLE, PyCharm, Android Studio, and more. Some of those aren’t around any more. I’m not worried about Vim getting eaten by a big tech company, or enshittified to feed advertising or AI ambitions. — Choosing Vim over VSCode

Quai de la Garonne, Toulouse, Dec. 2025

/me is listening to “If I wanted someone” by Dawes

System Reliability and Six Sigma in R and Python.