A few people on twitter found this useful so here it is in full: I’ve been writing a few papers…
Upcoming events
A few things coming up 1st May 2010 – Slub VJing with Kirk Degiorgio at Lambda Festival, Antwerp 2nd May…
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…
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…
Pure dyne
I’ve been through a few linux distros over the years, neatly getting progressively easier to install and configure as I…
2000 to 2009
Inspired by Christof, here’s my roundup of 2000 to 2009, seriously inhibited by my terrible memory. Will add to this…
Metaphors of javadoc
Conceptual metaphor theory holds that our understanding of the world is largely structured by metaphor. This presumably includes our…
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…
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…
Acid sketching
I’ve been thinking about visual languages and the morphology of symbols (as opposed to words) for a while. I had…