Smart Disorganized

A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • Conway’s Corollary

    Ian Bicking’s post on Conway’s Corollary is a must-read thought on isomorphisms between the organization and product structures. What, asks Bicking, if we don’t fight this, but embrace it. Organizational structures are allegedly for our benefit. Why not allow them to shape product? Or when this is inappropriate why not recognize that the two MUST be…

  • Scsh

    Possibly The Scheme Shell will be my third Lisp (after Clojure and Racket). I need to do some more shell-scripting. And a Scheme for shell scripting sounds perfect.

  • Some days, the internet astounds me

    I wrote a question on the OpenCV forum and got an amazingly comprehensive and useful answer from pklab. It’s extraordinary how he (or she) has immersed themselves into the project of solving my problem. I’m humbled.

  • TreeSheets

    TreeSheets look like a pretty interesting combination of spreadsheet and hierarchical outliners / organizers.

  • The Android Studio / Gradle Experience

    Im sure my answer / comment on What is Gradle in Android Studio? will get downvoted into oblivion with short-shrift fairly soon. (Maybe deservedly). But I’ll make it here : [quote] At the risk of being discursive I think behind this is the question of why the Android Studio / Gradle experience is so bad.…

  • Killing my vibe

    qzhuyan responds to me tweeting Emacs on PocketCHIP. Emacs on pocketchip! Nice man! Then one can have portable org mode! https://t.co/ohzeegFQtD — qzhuyan (@qzhuyan) August 11, 2016 Which is, er, very true. And wonderful. But this haunts me continuously, as I explore the Mind Traffic Geometry of tools that support me tracking tasks and outlining…

  • DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip

    OK. So someone has made a Pocket-style Raspberry Pi case. Very nice. Hope someone starts commercializing these as I think they’ll be very important for the RasPi ecosystem. mobipre2 shared on YouTube: Raspberry Pi – Pocket Chip   Source: DIY 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Pocket Chip « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and…

  • MTC on PocketCHIP

    You all probably knew where this was going, right? Of course, it’s been my priority to run the new MTC on the PocketCHIP. And it runs fine, without any special conversion; just needed to figure out how to install a library it depended on without going through drracket. Now I’m off for my celebratory bike…

  • Racket on PocketCHIP

    Got my PocketCHIP yesterday. And here it is running Emacs, with a Racket REPL via Geiser. I have to say, this has been the dream for a long time … a cheap, portable device that runs Linux, has Emacs, git, rsync etc. And I can actually write and run Lisp on it. It has a…

  • 500 Lines or Less is Available Now

    This looks good : 500 Lines or Less

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