What’s New on This Site

At this point, my website has turned into a bit of a mess, with content split between a bunch of different places. This page tracks changes so that you can easily see what’s new. If it were more sophisticated, I would add an RSS feed or something here. (Note: minor edits aren’t tracked here.)

Check out my miscellany page for an “index” into most of what’s on this website.

2024-03-09: Added Exhalation to books list and wrote up a short life post on my trip to Switzerland
2024-02-10: Wrote a longer musing on what I call “cargo cult Greek”
2023-12-12: Added Labyrinths to books list, a fun weekend project building a Lego treadmill, and a short musing on divine particularity to a revamped faith section
2023-11-24: Finally wrote up some non-technical posts, on my last summer vacation, London business trip, and fall foliage cycling trip
2023-11-07: Wrote a short post on using exceptions to implement a universal type in OCaml
2023-10-29: Wrote up an old post idea, on why types can’t be thought of as sets
2023-10-25: Added The Brothers Karamazov to book list and updated my picture on the about page, which used to be from December 2019
2023-09-09: Wrote a blog post explaining why I’ve recently decided to accept friend requests on Facebook, in reversal of my longestanding policy
2023-08-24: Published an old, short draft on immigration policy and science and added my new Instagram account to misc
2023-08-07: Finished the historical analysis of predestination that I’ve been working on for a while in the faith section
2023-08-02: Added Gilead and Julia: A Latin Reading Book (a forgotten book from high school) to books list
2023-07-31: Added life posts for ACF senior trip and Hawaiʻi vacation, and a cycling post for saying goodbye to Pittsburgh
2023-07-05: Wrote a blog post about some of my favorite results from my undergrad studies in CS
2023-06-23: Wrote a short blog post on the HyperTeX Markup Language
2023-06-19: Some miscellaneous changes, including adding Midnight’s Children to book list
2023-06-01: Added an explicit page for writings on faith that were previously scattered about
2023-05-27: Updated about me to reflect the fact that I graduated
2023-05-16: Wrote spring 2023 reflection and added An Artist of the Floating World to book list
2023-04-08: Added The Pilgrim’s Progress and God, Freedom, and Evil to book list
2023-03-17: Added the transcript of a talk on James 4:6–17 that I gave at ACF large group, and the corresponding worksheet
2023-02-01: Wrote up some thoughts on church membership as a college student
2023-01-08: Added Morgoth’s Ring to my book list and uploaded some reading notes on the Athrabeth
2022-12-19: Wrote the customary fall 2022 reflection post for the end of the semester
2022-12-13: Added a back-dated post on a mistake in Haskell and OCaml
2022-11-03: Many changes here since I last updated this page. Wrote posts on fall break bike tour, summer activities, and OCaml joke. Also added “Seemingly impossible functional programs” to reading and Klara and the Sun to books. Updated spring 2022 hiking with some new trips.
2022-08-03: New post on Vim complexity and a back-dated post on metrics
2022-05-20: Added Josh’s photos to camping pictures, Hardy’s Apology to reading, Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others to books, and my new email address to about.
2022-05-13: Added spring 2022 reflection post as well as back-dated life posts on my birthday weekend and various trips this semester. I also added Hamming’s “You and Your Research” and Coates’s “A Muscular Empathy” to my recommended reads.
2022-03-17: Wrote new life post on spring break trip to Boston and created a wishlist. I also added a bit of content to the about and miscellany pages.
2022-02-08: Added video and Strava links to some ride reports
2022-02-04: New blog post on image layout and backdated short post on ImageMagick thumbnails
2022-01-12: Finished adding old travel photos to life page
2022-01-12: Added what’s new page