Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
Case Duckworth
You have reached my personal website. This is where I put my thoughts and feelings: about life, art, &c. (I also have a professional site, if that's what you're looking for.) This is my personal sandbox: a garden, a toolshed, a home-cooked meal. Enjoy your stay!
Latest Posts
I like Colbert, even though I quit watching him around oh, 2012? Just lost the habit of tuning in the Report every night, then with what all happened in 2016 and beyond I just lost interest in pretty much anything news-shaped. Anyway, he...
I loved Lee Lai’s first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, so when I heard that her newest book had won a lot of awards I determined to keep my eye out for it at the library. I finally got it the other day, and it is really good. It’s about a...
Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster ~ Natalie Riess I read the first Space Battle Lunchtime years ago and thought it was cute. The second volume is just as much fun! It picks up directly after the cliff hanger ending of...
This is the third China Miéville novel I’ve read, behind The City and the City and Railsea. One thing I really like about Miéville’s work is that he manages to make every novel so different from the others, and all so very good....
My first web presence was in sixth grade on this website called the express page. It was one of those websites where you could make your own little html page, like an off-brand geocities I guess (I never used geocities). They had some...
I think that noa makes a great point about the nascent “choose European!” trend going on over there. While moving away from American hegemony is a necessary step (and not only in the tech or services realms), replacing one hegemon for...
Of course I found this in a Hacker News comment. Some background “AI tells” have been a thing for nearly as long as this heLLM-scape has, and they’re just about as bad as the actual machines they supposedly unearth. The whole problem...
Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one...
My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one of those recommendations, so...
Gordon’s note caught my attention, then I disagreed with most of his points. Here are my thoughts on his five minor peeves with “many websites.” Comments are good, add them. Yes, I know it opens up things like spam but if you are posting...
I’ve been really getting into the independent web lately. Instead of doomscrolling reddit, I’ve been reading through bubbles and powrss. Doing so, I run into a lot of community-building-type posts, like the Junited one by Robert...
Unraveling AI’s ‘Knitting Bullshit’ CommaFeed Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua Clojure Camp 4Clojure awesome-katas Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain clj-org: A Clojure Org Mode parser A Modern CSS Reset...
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as...
It’s been a long time since I wrote poetry, honestly too long. When I was writing poetry fairly regularly, I wrote a mixture of free verse and formed verse. Verse forms are fun because they’re an exercise in constrained writing, which...
Configuration bankruptcy is someting of a meme in the Emacs community, to the point where there is a dedicated wiki page describing the phenomenon. As a fully-programmable text editor, Emacs configuration tends toward spaghetti over...