The Meditative Coder

In my distant past, I dabbled in a bit of Unix system administration.  (How distantly in the past?  SunOS 4.2.  Yeah, I'm old.) This y...

I'm a little embarrassed to admit that in my entire 35-year career, I've never really learned anything about international character...

I've been a C programmer for some 20 years now, and I learned something new about the language just a few days ago. A less-experienced...

I discovered the convenience of rapid cycle testing in Clojure with "midje" and liked it.  I then re-created it while learning so...

As one who lived through the final throes " Go To Statement Considered Harmful " debate (I still feel like I need a shower on the ...

Have an extra $2194 and would prefer to give it to greedy liars instead of worthy charities?  Then buy yourself one of these 10-foot Etherne...

I'm still experimenting with TDD , and the   jury   is   still    out .  As with so many religious wars , I suspect the best advice is ...

A woman named Margaret. https://medium.com/@3fingeredfox/margaret-hamilton-lead-software-engineer-project-apollo-158754170da8 More info...

In my previous blog post , I talked about different data representations for recording a game of 10-pin bowling.  I started with an obvious ...

Why Aardvarks?  Because in the 80s I knew somebody who made up the fictitious game show as a quintessentially absurdist entertainment.  He i...

A long time ago, I mentioned an event logger that I promised I would create a downloadable package for.  I obviously never did. I've ...

I just ran across the site: ifttt.com (stands for "if this then that").  It appears to be a primitive autonomous intelligent perso...

In this article, I explain tail call recursion, show an example in both Clojure and common lisp, opine that Clojure's approach to tail...

I changed the name of my blog from "Sford's Blog" to "The Meditative Coder". A bit pretentious or pompous? I ho...

In my previous post , I did some speed measurements of Clojure.   John commented with a test in common lisp, which performed MUCH better th...