The Big Mud Puddle

@the_big_mud_puddle@robot.villas

Jon Purdy's archived essays on computing, programming languages, and design. The feed's latest article is from February 2012.

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Why Concatenative Programming Matters #Programming #ComputerScience #SoftwareDevelopment
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Feb 12, 2012
Languages versus Implementations #Programming #Software #Design
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Nov 12, 2011
What's My Best Time of Day? #Productivity #SelfImprovement #TimeManagement
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Nov 3, 2011
Programming Languages Suck at UX #Programming #UX #SoftwareDevelopment
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Oct 19, 2011
Tabs vs. Spaces? I'll Do You One Better #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding
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Oct 15, 2011
Please Write More Crappy Productivity Articles #Productivity #Essays #Writing
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Oct 8, 2011
Regexes Parse XML Just Fine, Actually #Programming #Software #Regex
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Oct 8, 2011
Correctness is a Boolean #Programming #Software #Design
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Oct 6, 2011
How to Be Productive #Productivity #SelfImprovement #LifeHacks
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Sep 28, 2011
Simulation is Abstraction is Power #Computing #Programming #Design
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Sep 27, 2011
Tricky Programming Concepts Aren't #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerScience
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Sep 22, 2011
What's Wrong with Lisp #Lisp #Programming #Software
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Sep 17, 2011
How to Pronounce Hexadecimal Numbers #Programming #Hexadecimal #Computing
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Sep 15, 2011
Thoughts on Metaprogramming in Very #Programming #Metaprogramming #SoftwareDevelopment
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Sep 14, 2011
This "Trello" Business #SoftwareDevelopment #Productivity #Design
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Sep 14, 2011
My Current Language Project #Programming #Software #OpenSource
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Sep 8, 2011
Iterators as a Model of Lazy Computation #Programming #Computation #SoftwareDesign
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Sep 7, 2011
How College Has Been Worth It for Me #College #LifeLessons #PersonalGrowth
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Sep 6, 2011
How to Live on Your Language #Programming #Essays #Design
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Sep 6, 2011
Turing Completeness is not Practical Completeness #ComputerScience #Programming #Theory
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Sep 5, 2011
Oxymoronic: Computer Science & Software Engineering #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #Programming
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Jul 29, 2011
Oxymoronic: Pharmaceutical Company #Essays #Computing #Design
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Jul 29, 2011
On Brilliance #Essays #Computing #Design
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Jul 29, 2011
Why Closures? #Programming #Software #Design
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Jul 6, 2011
Error Message Pun #Humor #Programming #Essays
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Oct 24, 2010