One Year
Today marks one year since my dad died.| Grey Patterson
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Miyoko Schinner This worked surprisingly well as a counterpoint to The Vegetarian Flavor Bible. Where that one went all-in on “there’s so many interesting fruits/vegetables/etc. that you won’t even miss meat,” this is a lot more “so: you miss eating meat, but want to stick with not eating meat.” It’s an interesting approach! It felt weird to be reading through the steps and see “add the chicken” or whatever, and need to look over at the ingredients list and see that it was s...| Grey Patterson
Terry Pratchett I never feel quite right about writing a book review of a book that I’d already read before, but sometimes I can bring myself to do it with a series. In this case, it’s a sub-series—the Moist von Lipwig books within Terry Pratchett’s greater Discworld series. I didn’t quite intend to, but wound up rereading all three of them. In reverse order, in fact, which really highlights the “didn’t quite intend to”—had I known that’s what I was doing, I probably would...| Grey Patterson
Sounding the spoiler horn: not only will I be making no effort to avoid spoilers for K-Pop Demon Hunters here, I will be actively assuming that the reader has seen the movie.| Grey Patterson
It’s been a weird month. As I’m writing this, the weather has very suddenly gone from “80ish degrees and sunny” to “60-something and rainy,” so I’d say that autumn has arrived with a vengeance; there’s already a bit more fall vibes creeping into this playlist. As usual, individual tracks below, full playlist here. Oklahoma Smokeshow – Zach Bryan on Summertime Blues – EP Hotel Bible – Max McNown on Night Diving Medusa – Cameron Whitcomb on Medusa – Single Heartbreaker...| Grey Patterson
Melissa Scott I really enjoyed this one! I think it counts as cyberpunk, but the digital world stuff was a really neat take on evolutionary programming. I’m actually over here wondering how much this was an inspiration for Code Lyoko, the visuals I was imagining felt very similar. The setting is basically that, at some point, software engineers went “screw it, we’ll just evolve software to do what we want instead of trying to write it ourselves.”1 Skip forward a mystery amount of time...| Grey Patterson
John McPhee Truly astonishing that it took me this long to read this book; it’s thoroughly right up my alley.1 To start with, it’s McPhee, and he’s my favorite nonfiction author. And after that, it’s about nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and proliferation… with a solid digression into nuclear rocketry, which has long been an interest of mine.2 Nothing in the rocketry section was new to me—I’ve read up enough on that to the point that everything was familiar, although the persona...| Grey Patterson
Adam Tornhill This was an odd read. I think the core idea—version control systems are a layer of metadata on top of our code, which we seldom use for anything valuable but should—is a good one, but the actual implementation of the book just didn’t work for me. Part of the issue was that it made a terrible ebook—there’s a fair amount of charts, all of which rely on color-coding, and thus become entirely illegible on a grayscale e-ink screen.1 Past that, though, a whole lot of it felt...| Grey Patterson
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Ashley Peacock “Pragmatic Express” is an interesting imprint for this, but I suppose it tracks – this is a short book that mostly just introduces Mermaid as a concept, as well as going through a couple use-cases of diagramming in general. I did wind up writing some Mermaid diagrams as I was reading through the book, as it lined up well with some documentation I needed to write. I was a little tempted to figure out a way to inject Mermaid into this site when I saw that it has Sankey diag...| Grey Patterson
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