Robin Schwartz


Posts

2026-01-14 — Feast of the Ass

2025-12-29 — Daylight Savings at the South Pole

2025-12-25 — Clown Eggs

2025-03-28 — Two Nights in Iceland

2023-05-07 — What’s Happening, May 2023

2022-12-08 — How I Build Emacs From Source on Debian

2022-05-05 — What’s Happening, May 2022

2021-12-28 — What’s Happening, December 2021

2021-11-08 — What’s Your Favorite Grain to Puff?

2021-08-12 — Transcript of Beer’s Research Into a Cybernetic Analogue of Fabric

2021-07-19 — Photogrammetry with Beans

2021-06-04 — What’s Happening, June 2021

2020-09-28 — What’s Happening, September 2020

2020-08-01 — Panorama Point, Nebraska

2020-07-17 — If COVID Were a War

2020-07-05 — What Bird Is That?

2020-03-28 — Some Recipes for Stress-Cooking

2020-03-21 — Burro Racing’s Triple Crown

2020-03-19 — Growing Up On Shoshah4muufuiB Drive

2019-11-16 — Canadian Permanent Residency

2019-11-14 — Climbing Longs Peak via the Keyhole Route

2019-09-16 — Graduating the CMC’s Alpine Climbing School

2019-08-25 — The Qinling-Huaihe Line

2019-08-22 — Diving the Great Barrier Reef

2019-08-11 — Hiking the Decalibron

2019-08-07 — SNOTEL & Meteor Burst Communication

2019-04-07 — Backpacking in Great Sand Dunes NP

2019-02-15 — Phatic Interactions

2019-02-11 — Amateur and Professional Software

2019-02-08 — Implementing Sets with Functions

2018-08-17 — Racecar Beds

2018-08-16 — Blowing is Happening in the Mind

2018-06-17 — Monkey Island

2018-06-12 — Just a Reminder That arandr Exists

2018-06-03 — Wordograms

2018-05-22 — The Greeks and the Trojans

2018-05-17 — A T-shirt to Celebrate GDPR!

2018-05-08 — Sending Newsbeuter/Newsboat Articles to Instapaper

2017-11-03 — Disabling Autoplaying Videos in Firefox

2017-08-24 — On Frilling

2017-07-28 — Recommended Reading from the DeepSpec Summer School

2017-07-26 — Lifting Lambdas into Supercombinators

2017-07-18 — Transcript of Nall’s Continuations

2017-04-14 — Vanity Plates of Silicon Valley

2017-03-07 — Byzantine Testing

2017-02-17 — Verified, Validated, or Certified?

2017-02-04 — Verifying Distributed Systems with Verdi

2017-02-01 — Ubiquitous Hummingbirds!

2017-01-07 — Why Formal Semantics?

2016-12-23 — Road Trip Photos 2016

2016-12-16 — The Bouba/kiki Effect

2016-10-02 — Parlor Rollers

2016-09-09 — Moving Out West!

2016-08-03 — Creating Org-mode TODOs on iOS with Drafts

2016-07-16 — Searching Email from mutt on OS X

2016-07-15 — Zeller’s Congruence

2016-07-12 — Cambridge Summer Classic 5K

2016-07-02 — OPLSS Flotsam

2016-06-16 — The Mathematics of Lavender Wands

2016-06-15 — Casual Static Analysis

2016-06-02 — Skills to Retire On

2016-05-31 — Chronological Snobbery

2016-05-26 — Detecting Old Passwords with pass

2016-05-21 — Folk Models of Home Computer Security

2016-05-20 — Compilation as Search

2016-05-19 — When is Literate Programming Appropriate?

2016-03-13 — Going to OPLSS 2016!

2016-02-15 — Switching to a Literate Emacs Configuration

2015-12-22 — A Tool for Finding Primers

2015-12-12 — SquawkBox—Viral Avian Marketing

2015-12-10 — Just a Reminder That rlwrap Exists

2015-11-21 — Naked Splats Pass Blocks

2015-11-17 — Encrypting Email By Default with Mutt

2015-11-04 — Burritos for the Hungry Mathematician

2015-09-30 — Generating Unique Tokens with Lazy Enumerators

2015-09-29 — Voronoi Experiments

2015-09-14 — Starting an Emacs Meetup

2015-08-31 — EmacsConf 2015

2015-08-18 — Building an Object System from Closures

2015-07-26 — Thinking about Concurrency

2015-06-10 — Back to Debian

2015-04-17 — Moving to Boston

2015-02-18 — EmacsNYC Stickers

2015-02-13 — The Classical Code Reading Group of New York

2015-02-13 — The Littlest Macro

2015-02-08 — Composable and Compilable Macros

2014-12-30 — Tips for Teaching

2014-10-29 — A Streetcar to Subduction

2014-10-22 — Coming Down from the Clouds

2014-10-13 — Teaching at RailsBridge

2014-10-07 — The Soylent Experiment

2014-09-29 — Some Terrible Wonderful Films

2014-07-21 — The Tyranny of Structurelessness

2014-07-18 — Pigeon Photographers

2014-07-03 — Reading the CS Canon

2014-07-03 — Switching from RVM to chruby

2014-07-02 — Defying the Queen Abroad

2014-07-02 — Waggle Dancing

2014-06-27 — The Crackpot Index

2014-06-03 — Our First Pepper!

2014-04-08 — An Introduction to Emacs Lisp

2014-03-21 — The New York Emacs Meetup

2014-02-26 — Even Glue-to-Glue?

2013-12-11 — Anaphoric Procs

2013-11-10 — The Many Names of the India-Bird

2013-10-21 — Kilobytely

2013-09-27 — Growing a Language

2013-09-26 — Pet Names

2013-02-02 — Computing with Crabs

2013-01-09 — Good Luck

2012-10-23 — The QM2

2012-07-03 — The Bridge of Smoots

2012-07-01 — Emac(s|k)

2012-03-10 — Ancient Greek Punishment

2012-02-21 — Rudy on Rails

2011-12-10 — George Plimpton’s Video Falconry

2011-11-23 — Mazes & Labyrinths

2011-11-07 — Yelping with Cormac

2011-05-23 — Abandoned Yugoslav Monuments

2011-04-13 — AlgoRhythmics

2011-03-13 — Cephalophores

2011-03-08 — Wind Knitting Factory

2011-02-25 — Chess Music

2011-02-12 — RFC 2324

2011-01-10 — Types of Screws

2011-01-09 — Pay Your Taxes, Witches

2011-01-06 — Memoization using Closures

2010-12-28 — Regional Dialects

2010-12-09 — Untranslatable Words

2010-11-07 — Beowulf in Old English

2010-10-27 — Gödel in Single Syllables

2010-10-18 — Atlas of Remote Islands

2010-10-16 — RIP Benoit Mandelbrot

2010-10-13 — 12 Byzantine Rulers

2010-10-01 — The Original Gilgamesh

2010-08-11 — A Mathematician’s Apology

2010-08-11 — Artisanal Pencil Sharpening

2010-08-11 — Nixon In China

2010-07-17 — Solar Sailing

2010-06-12 — Fishy Scholarship

2010-05-27 — Finchley Central

2010-05-07 — Rachmaninoff on Mars

2010-04-25 — The Turbo-encabulator

2010-04-01 — Numbers Are New

2010-03-12 — Math Ruins Everything

2010-02-16 — Artificial Flight and Other Myths

2010-02-16 — Chess Boxing

2010-02-14 — Apocalypse Pooh

2010-02-11 — Drunken Bats

2010-01-29 — Handmade Islands

2010-01-23 — Honorary Vertebrates

2010-01-20 — The Permanent Thunderstorm

2010-01-17 — The Perfect Cup of Coffee

2010-01-10 — Nomograms

2010-01-09 — Undirected Deliciousness

2009-12-24 — An Obfuscated Christmas

2009-12-23 — Gävle Goat Burned Again

2009-12-17 — Listening Devices

2009-12-15 — Octopi Can Use Tools

2009-12-15 — What English Sounds Like

2009-12-14 — Behemoth

2009-12-08 — Philosopheme

2009-11-30 — A Vending Machine for Crows

2009-11-23 — Lalochezia

2009-11-23 — Yucca Mountain

2009-11-22 — We Know You’re Out There, Spiderman

2009-11-16 — The Nine Nations

2009-11-10 — The End of the World: An FAQ

2009-10-01 — Sewing Machines

2009-09-17 — The Evil Bit

2009-09-03 — The Encyclopédie

2009-07-21 — Quines

2009-06-23 — The Peony

2009-05-14 — The Tao of Programming

2009-04-09 — Sprachraum

2009-03-08 — The Pseudodoxia Epidemica

2009-02-22 — The Hofmeister Kink

2009-02-17 — The Circular Ruins

2009-02-05 — Pork Cake

2009-01-20 — The Felicific Calculus

2009-01-15 — Aeolopiles

2009-01-04 — The Gävle Goat

2008-11-16 — The Buffalo Bills

2008-11-14 — The Incontinent Duck

2008-11-06 — Joseph Palmer

2008-07-14 — Mamihlapinatapai

2008-07-09 — Emperor Norton

2008-07-07 — Glottochronology

2008-05-19 — A Refutation of Galileo

2007-12-25 — The Mechanical Turk