writing

Writing

A public place for quick unpolished writing. Topics include:

See djedr.github.io/writing and xtao.org/blog for more polished writing by me. Some of the writing here may eventually get republished there.

Note: you can view these writings directly on GitHub or thru a GitHub page – it’s generally better to do so directly, because GitHub pages don’t do syntax highlighting and don’t render math formulas, making them unreadable.

Selected technical

2024-03-25 Decorators: The Missing CSS Feature

2023-11-24 CSS is SAAAD

2023-07-23 “Revelation: Lambda Calculus Reduced To Four Primitive Operations” (HTML). Or Markdown.

2023-07-21 “Exploring Simplified Lambda Calculus Notations: Summary” (HTML). Or Markdown.

2023-02-09 The Ecosystem Paradox

2023-02-01 The BLAST programming language

2023-01-25 Programming with DNA

2022-06-11 Celebrating 1000000 years of Lisp: simplifying S-expressions

2022-01-23 Encoding hexadecimal numbers with 10 digits

2022-01-21 Some differences between XML and JSON

2022-01-17 Semantics of XML attributes

2022-01-12 How many data types does it take to change a lightbulb?

2022-01-09 XML vs JSON trends as of 2022

2022-01-08 Restrictions of JSON numbers

2022-01-07 Meaningful data interchange in JSON

2022-01-07 IEEE754 numbers in JSON: NaN or Infinity

2022-01-04 Large numbers in JSON

About Jevko

2024-02-22 Jevko: year three or five or n

2023-11-30 A simple backwards-compatible Jevko extension to support fenced blocks of arbitrary text

2023-11-23 Jevko for manual editing

2023-09-08 Whitespace in Jevko

2023-07-23 Alternative useful grammar for Jevko

2022-02-06 Some semantic analogies to syntactic constructs in Jevko

2022-01-22 Hacking XML attributes with Jevko

2022-01-20 The low and high level Jevko grammars

2022-01-17 Jevko as ultra-compact XML, take 2

2022-01-13 Jevko as ultra-compact XML

2022-01-13 A vision of total intercommunication of all software systems

2022-01-12 New year, new logo for Jevko?

2022-01-10 A mapping between Jevko and visual trees

2023-01-14 Draft: The Jevko document from heaven (Jevko compared to YAML)

2022-01-24 Horse and carriage

Selected nontechnical

2024-02-28 Opinion: the good the bad of generative artificial intelligence

2023-01-30 Common Business Communication Language

2023-01-29 Magic and religion in informatics

2023-01-28 Programming as magic

2023-01-27 Fungi get you in the end

2023-01-19 Paradox might be fundamental

2023-01-19 Rules of logic are not fundamental

2023-01-17 Truth and simplicity go together

2023-01-12 The Free Will Wager

2023-01-05 Simple modular elements connected together into increasingly complex forms

2023-01-04 Little green squares

Unsorted

2023-06-15-affix-syntax.md

2023-05-16-ostra.md

2023-02-01-nano-standard.md

2023-01-31-universality.md

2023-01-31-standard.md

2023-01-26-rational.md

2023-01-26-interactions.md

2023-01-26-cosmic-explosion.md

2023-01-17-jsx.md

2023-01-17-adoption.md

2023-01-08-habits.md

2022-01-04-sexpr-subreddit.md

These are marked as drafts, although the distinction is mostly dependent on my mood when naming the file:

draft-2023-01-16-explicit-semantics.md

draft-2022-12-21-whitespace.md

draft-2022-01-28-mdif.md

draft-2022-01-16-bare-xml.md

draft-2022-01-14-bare-xml.md

Bonus

In case for some reason you need to really read more of my writing (maybe it has a soothing effect on you, I don’t know), I’m linking more loose, mostly nontechnical thoughts, what I call writing exercises.


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