What’s that? The Berlin Phil released a recording of two viola concertos (Walton and Martinů)? Good grief, yes. And it is very good, of course! www.berliner-philharmoniker-recordings.com/walton-marti... (We don’t have nearly enough viola concertos. I have thought about writing one… someday.)

Amihai Grosz: Walton · Martinů

Our series aims to introduce the soloists of the Berliner Philharmoniker in selected recordings. The spotlight here is on Amihai Grosz, the orchestra’s 1st Principal Viola. He studied with David Chen ...

A few years ago I set a tough-seeming goal for a #Strava#Boulderthon#halfmarathon taper, and I blew past that goal at what is now a moderate effort. Persistence + good training FTW.

fwiw, this is the macro definition necessary to implement something like this:

My favorite "decl macro" shape is "markdown table". It's perfect for data like this. Also this is my "ORM" for fjall, the key + value types are used to bind the postcard ser/de code.

I really hope "the problem is new code" catches on. I described defects decaying over time in "C++ Must Become Safer," but this article from the Google Security Blog explains it more clearly: security.googleblog.com/2024/09/elim...

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threa...

#ThursdayRTFM: `man less`. The summary is “opposite of more”, and the description opens with “…a program similar to more(1), but which allows backward movement in the file…” Not that helpful—especially since `more` is aliased to `less` on a lot of modern OSes, including macOS.

Lots of ups and downs in the job search lately—so I’m asking everyone in my networks: What interesting companies are doing valuable things in the dev tools space, or even adjacent to the dev tools space, and are hiring? [note: strong preference not to be writing Java or Go]

I'm sure others have done it better, but one thing I feel like maybe I ought to do, once the blog is off hiatus (maybe in the new year) is write a bit about the moral universe of the Lord of the Rings and how Tolkien understands supernatural power. Call it "Why Boromir Conquered."

This is actually something neat about how Tolkien, to my mind, understands and presents power and contests of power. Supernatural characters don't have don't have a static 'power level' like a D&D character and their strength often isn't show in straight fights.

I spent about two hours this afternoon fighting Graphviz to get two boxes with an arrow between them to be in the right order.[^1] Then I commented and uncommented a `rankdir = LR;` attribute. That fixed it. [^1]: No, GenAI wouldn’t help. I tried, just in case!