Smart Disorganized

A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • MTC Update

    Fixed a minor, but annoying, bug in MTC Racket today. There’s an option, when you have a URL in an item, to get MTC to pull it and show the “title” of the page that the URL is pointing out. It’s a quick reminder of what the page is about without opening up the browser…

  • Facebook's Chatbots  

    Facebook’s embrace of Chatbots in Messenger is their most audacious move yet to enclose what was once thought of as “the internet” within their private platform. More on ThoughtStorms:ChatBots

  • MTC Update

    Today I killed the old Mind Traffic Control on Google App Engine. And replaced it with a new, fairly basic, site. (Though one that’s quite pretty, in a Packt Publishing kind of way.) This is the beginning of a whole new MTC ecosystem. 1) I’m no longer interested in hosting your todos on Google App…

  • Racket vs. Clojure

    I’m using Racket more than Clojure these days. And I’m wondering, is this really about A Good IDE? Because I still like Clojure better as a language. And I like the standard library a lot better. And love ParEdit in Emacs. It’s just that the all-in-one-ness of DrRacket is so darned convenient.

  • Frog

    I’m starting to immerse myself more in the Racket world these days. And recently, I’ve had more troubles with my server and WordPress blogs. So I’m looking into Greg Hendershott‘s Frog (Frozen Blog) to see if this would be useful. I’m thinking of porting some of my lower-traffic, not very visually sophisticated, blogs to it.…

  • Things Are Evolving

    A burst of development energy in a number of directions recently. And things are starting to self-organize towards the new ecosystem. Today’s exciting news : OWL makes a very nice desktop app, thanks to Electron. Here’s the github repo. I’ll be doing more testing, compiling, packaging this shortly. So that even non-geeks can play with…

  • Startup CEO's: don't use functional programming languages.

    He he! Anti-FP trolling is a thing.

  • A Node virtual machine

    Ideal Node.js hosting service Here’s the URL of a GIT repo, containing a Node app. Run it with forever. I want to be able to do a tail -f on the log so I can see what’s going on.  And to view its file system, perhaps through a browser-based JS app. I think that’s about…

  • Demo of 1999.io

    A preview of Dave Winer’s new blogging system : 1999.io Video demo of 1999.io

  • Matthias Felleisen — The Racket Manifesto

    Very interesting (and inspiring) to get an insight into the visions of the people behind Racket.

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