A resource for learning Standard ML

This is an excellent little resource for the language. A great text to accompany Purely Functional Data Structures.

A nice cheat sheet.

Get started and up to speed on the basic principles and concepts of programming in the Wolfram Language. Introductory tutorial for programmers.

This was a lot better.

via: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/138366/learn-mathematica-wolfram-language-in-one-day

Absurdly short to the point of not being all that helpful, honestly.

You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore

I learned this a few years ago; super handy.

A great introduction to typeclasses!

happy make a terrible comic day. i decided to try making a comic using an inkwell pen for the first time with no sketch on a subject that’s boring to everyone except me

How to make iced coffee correctly. Crazy good given that it was completely free-handed.

REST API tutorial covering design, HTTP methods, status codes, and best practices for building RESTful APIs.

Alloromantic people are fascinating. Thank God I (hopefully) shall never live their lives.

Libido, Sex Drive, Desire… as a society we put so much weight on the pressure to have an abundance of this ethereal thing, that we can feel a real deep loss when it wanes.

Cyan shares with us their story, as she’s takes steps to rediscover, heal, and explore her own changing relationship to sex.

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Generate hands-on, multi-part technical tutorials on demand, with LLM skills tuned to make content approachable. Then you work through them yourself, by hand.

I particularly want to name as traumatizing the belief that male sexuality is unwanted, uncontrollable, and threatening and harmful to women; that men are continually on the verge of committing sexual violence; or that male sexuality is fundamentally alien from female sexuality, with no overlap or shared experiences. These beliefs are profoundly sexist (yes, even when feminists say them) and common in a wide range of diverse subcultures. If you are a good, kind man who wants to respect women, and you are taught these beliefs, you’re going to dissociate from your sexuality. You’ve been taught that being predatory is not a choice made by people who can choose differently, but an inherent feature of male sexuality. You don’t want to be predatory, so it feels like you shouldn’t be sexual.

Man, this sex stuff is really hard, huh.

via: https://thingofthings.substack.com/p/disagreeing-charitably-with-others/

I think a lot of attempts at steelmanning wind up failing to reckon with difference and deeply held disagreement. You wind up acting like other people’s belief systems are failed versions of your own, instead of something that makes sense from experiences and assumptions you happen not to share. But other people aren’t inferior versions of you. Their beliefs make sense from their own perspective, and if you want to understand them you have to try to inhabit that perspective.

Nice advice on taking good smartphone photos.