Couple Thanksgiving presents for y'all: Errata List now on GitHub The list of errata is now version controlled on GitHub: https://github.com/vEnhance/egmo-book-errata.So now you can actually see a changelog of the ocean of typos as they come in.Shout-out to the crew working on the Japanese translation of the book for finding way more errors than I… Continue reading Two updates on the EGMO textbook
Month: November 2022
Why Evan does not like JavaScript as a first language
Some people have asked me why I anti-recommend JavaScript for beginners on my website FAQ. This post will try to give a few reasons why. Some notes: I’m referring to base JS. I like TypeScript a lot for example (it’s high on my tier list of programming languages for beginners). And I know about eslint,… Continue reading Why Evan does not like JavaScript as a first language
poem
don't ask why it just came in my head Quandary So you have a fair coin that you found on the ground, or at least that's what everyone says. But on each of N times that you've tossed it around, you see every flip has been heads. For which value of N should you start… Continue reading poem
Twitch Solves ISL, Season 2
By popular request, Twitch Solves ISL is renewed for a second season which will begin on Friday, 18 November 2022. As in the past, streams will start at 8:00pm Eastern time on Friday nights, and last 1-4 hours depending on how much coffee I drank that morning. I've scheduled 26 episodes for the second season… Continue reading Twitch Solves ISL, Season 2
Power Overwhelming 