A few people on twitter found this useful so here it is in full: I’ve been writing a few papers … More
Author: Alex McLean
Upcoming events
A few things coming up 1st May 2010 – Slub VJing with Kirk Degiorgio at Lambda Festival, Antwerp 2nd May … More
The Joy of Interpretation
Without interpreters, we wouldn’t have software, but yet interpreters are also software. This is why we talk about `bootstrapping’, where … More
Bricolage programming and patterns
It’s Ada Lovelace day today, and it turns out my main influences lately have been two women. One is Sherry … More
Pure dyne
I’ve been through a few linux distros over the years, neatly getting progressively easier to install and configure as I … More
2000 to 2009
Inspired by Christof, here’s my roundup of 2000 to 2009, seriously inhibited by my terrible memory. Will add to this … More
Metaphors of javadoc
Conceptual metaphor theory holds that our understanding of the world is largely structured by metaphor. This presumably includes our … More
The iPhone and toilet paper freedom
Geoffg is playing a lawyer in declaring his interpretation of the GPL as the truth, lambasting the Free Software Foundation … More
Patterns of Movement in Live Languages
I’m giving a paper at the CHArt conference in Birkbeck tomorrow. I’ll edit it a little after the conference for … More
Acid sketching
I’ve been thinking about visual languages and the morphology of symbols (as opposed to words) for a while. I had … More