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Some Recent Posts:

Unity of Paradigms - Dec 2025

Map/filter/reduce, APL and Relational Algebra seem to be the same

Interview With Bakpakin - Dec 2025

Bakpakin made Janet. I asked him about the project and community.

Gradual Automation With Do Nothing Scripts - Oct 2025

Save time and mental load with this gradual automation methodology

Interview With Technomancy - Jul 2025

Technomancy made Leinigen, leads the Fennel project and makes beautiful games!

Janet Commonplace - Jul 2025

Questions, resources and thoughts about Janet, a minimalist Clojure-like with native binaries.

Which Language Has the Most Words - Jun 2025

How many words do we have with wave, waves, wavey, wavelet and wavelets? Might Webster or Johnson have built a different tradition of dictionary making?

Persian Christianity - May 2025

Few Persians today know the period between Darius and the Islamic conquests well, about their region’s Christian past.