Abstract Heresies

I have an extensive lisp.md file that I include in my system instructions when I am vibe coding Common Lisp. Feel free to use these suggest...

When I did interviews for Google, one of my go-to interview questions was to ask the candidate to determine if someone had won a game of...

Why write boilerplate code when you can ask an LLM can do it for you? But even LLMs will avoid boilerplate if they can. I recently vib...

I was talking with Amit Patel of Red Blob Games the other day and he mentioned that he had been participating in a programming endeav...

Continuation-passing style (CPS) is a programming style in which you pass one or more first-class procedures (continuations) to a functi...

This is an anecdote, not a data point, yet. I'm a firm believer in functional programming and I consider myself a `mostly functional...