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Jonathan Raphaelson: (n. proper)
ˈʤɑnəθən ˈreɪfʊlsən

Dad nerd, boy genius; software engineer by day, and also by night.
A slightly malfunctioning robot.

I am currently on a gap year from work.

notes

• 2024 Nov 08 bit-struct, a bit-struct macro for racket
• 2023 Dec 19 Notes on "The Art of the Metaobject Protocol"
• 2023 Apr 01 Sabattical, '23
• 2023 Mar 17 protohackers in CL (part 1 'call/cc')
• 2023 Mar 04 protohackers in CL (part 0)
•   More

projects

• devlog for miriam scheme, a rather ambitious scheme

reading

• The Art of the Metaobject Protocol, by Gregor Kiczales et al. — notes and review
• Let over Lambda, by Doug Hoyte
• The Reasoned Schemer, and the rest of the “little” books, by Dan Friedman et. al.
• Crafting Interepreters, by Robert Nystrom
• All the Math you Missed, by Thomas Garrity

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes

  I’m struck by how much the scientists were figuring out as they went.

studying

• the STklos virtual machine, a well-documented scheme bytecode
• research papers of H. Baker, ACM distinguished scientist and LISP hacker.
• archive of oleg kiselyov (okmij.org), an insanely valuable archive of code, papers and notes.
• spritely goblins, a distributed capabality object system in scheme
• Implementation of Functional Programming Languages, by Simon Payton Jones

listening

• Spout Lore — my favorite podcast; dungeon world; very funny and heart-felt, pratchett-esque
• Pretending to be People — delta-green; gruesome, squeamish, hilarious, surprisingly emotional
• Ain’t Slayed Nobody — coc; dramatic, funny, 4-5 episode game arcs, scott dorward!
• The Apocalypse Players — coc; gruesome, voice acting, erudite, funny
• Solve this Murder — follow along murder mysteries! Some original, some Christie stories.

truths.

• $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$
• $Y = \lambda f.(\lambda x. f (x x))(\lambda x. f (x x))$
• $E^2 = ({mc^2})^2 + (pc)^2$
• $\sigma_x\sigma_p \geq \frac{\hbar}{2}$

Being a good software engineer is 3% talent, 97% not being distracted by the internet. - Unknown, appropriated¹

contact.

• jon@accidental.cc
• accidental@techhub.social
• github.com/lygaret
• linkedin.com/in/jonraphaelson