AS/400 Intro | simonsafar.com
We Are Doing Files Wrong| simonsafar.com
Willpower | simonsafar.com
Cars are Real Estate | simonsafar.com
Double Pretend It's Real 2025/09/18 Life is... mostly uninteresting. I mean... yes you're living in a sci-fi movie, etc, but... come on. Your daily commute is, sci-fi or not, Boring. It's the same every day. You got used to it. Wouldn't it be cooler, if, say, you went to, um, Japan? and took the train and could be like the protagonist in your favorite anime series? (... isn't there something exciting, just looking at entirely ordinary buildings in anime series and just thinking that you could...| Simon Safar
Living More Like Humans | simonsafar.com
An exploration of SBCL internals | simonsafar.com
Logarithmic Hedonism | simonsafar.com
You can Actually Live in a Sci-fi Movie | simonsafar.com
How to Build the Evil Superintelligence out of the Book | simonsafar.com
Spaces for Humans | simonsafar.com
You Can Run a DNS Server 2025/05/03 In fact, it's not especially even hard to run a DNS server. In case you were wondering whether this would mean... writing zone files with some arcane syntax that BIND 9 is apparently famous of, I hereby present the main point of this post a recommendation for which DNS server to choose.| Simon Safar
Are LLMs Partial Lookup Tables? 2025/04/29 Many of you might be familiar with Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. If not, here's the basic idea. A person is sitting in a room which has an opening, through which sometimes the outside world deposits pieces of paper, full of Chinese characters. Now, our person doesn't actually understand Chinese; fortunately though, the room also contains a copious amount of notes, describing sequences of characters that could come in & instructions for th...| Simon Safar
Freedom to Remove Features | simonsafar.com
Error Handling and If Statements | simonsafar.com
PATH should be a system call | simonsafar.com
Just Throw It Into Postgres | simonsafar.com
Slurping Data Quickly into Postgres | simonsafar.com
Cloudless Lights | simonsafar.com
On Finishing Blog Posts | simonsafar.com