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Mental Model Practices; JNumPy; A History of Lua Mental Model Practices We haven’t talked (directly) about mental models in a while. I shall rectify that today. In spades. Imagine your mind as an operating system. Ever since you’ve come to this world you’ve been programmed by your parents, friends, society… You are currently being programmed…

WebAssembly Universal Binaries; temir; tree WebAssembly Universal Binaries I have a moderately held policy to stay away from recommending betas in this newsletter. Betas are often fraught with peril and vaporware promises. Despite not being able to get this particular beta to work (yet), I felt compelled to cover it, today. The Wasmer folks (you…

OK dkim; Awesome Quarto; lazyhtml Unfortunately, I lost control of both Saturday and Sunday. I’m going to call also week a miss of my 5/5 goal and strive to get more of these in a queue that I can pick from when weeks get crazy. OK dkim Back in 2020, Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) wrote a…

term2svg; OkSo; CCTV-Exposure We attended a mid-week afternoon wedding, which has thrown off the newsletter schedule a bit, since that made early Wednesday AM and Thursday catch-up times at the place that pays the bills. I’ll drop another edition on Saturday to make up for it. term2svg I haven’t had a ton of need to…

Corpus Tools; storysniffer; otherweb Corpus Tools If the section on Trafilatura in yesterday’s edition piqued your interest, you’ll really like this section’s featurette on Corpus Tools. Corpus Tools is a joint portal of the ​Masaryk University‘s NLP Centre and ​Lexical Computing dedicated to a number of software tools for corpus processing including a well-known corpus…

WebAssembly: The Definitive Guide; Drift; Trafilatura WebAssembly: The Definitive Guide I discuss WebAssembly quite a bit as it’s going to impact our lives, dear reader, whether we create anything with it directly, or not. It is starting to take over the “edge” computing space, has been sneaking its way into our browsers for a while,…

Thunderbolts & Lightning; The Future Belongs To WebAssembly; R for Gaming Thunderbolts & Lightning It’s storm season in the U.S., which means regular visits from Thor’s thunderbolts and lightning. A little while ago, I picked up a Tempest weather station to pair with my Davis Vantage Vue, and also evaluate for a friend. It’s a…

Silicon; HEAT; Destination Unreachable Silicon I’ve been a fairly religious user of Carbon, the service and CLI utility that makes pretty images out of source code. It works great, but I’d rather not depend on an external service, and the CLI utility is less than optimal, and is written in javascript. The JS part isn’t…

Boop; Jupyter Notebook Viewer; PCAP visualization tool This is a macOS-heavy edition (though one section is platform-agnostic) if non-macOS folk want to save some time and skip it. Before darting away, perhaps take a look at the macOS-centric sections and suggest some solid Windows or Linux alternatives in the comments? Boop I’m regularly amazed at…

How To Be Influenced; Source Guides; Comcast How To Be Influenced Ian Leslie, over at The Ruffian, has a great essay on “How To Be Influenced”: The Ruffian How To Be Influenced Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself. Miles Davis. The reason this newsletter has the silly name it does…