It’s kind of amazing how reliable modern internet services have become over the last decade, which is why we freak out when they go down. But for Slack’s Julia Grace, each outage is an opportunity to… (more…)

I have written this post for developers in the Common Lisp community who asked why I am switching to Julia. It may only be relevant for the small set of people who use Common Lisp for scientific computing. (more…)

Erich Grunewald's blog: Texts on philosophy, poetry, literature, history, altruism, science, programming and music. (more…)

Why multiple dispatch lets you write composable code - msaroufim/multiple_dispatch... (more…)

It’s the end of the year again! Here are a few things that happened in 2019. I wrote these in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 too. (more…)