I'm a CS professor at a medium-sized public university, interested in most things about programs, and most other things, too. @wallingf@mastodon.social
Cedar Falls, Iowa
Joined May 2008
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+1 for Zweig’s Fantastic Night
These are literally the two most depressing books my geographical region has ever produced and that’s a very competitive market.
Why not read instead — or to balance and supplement — Zweig’s Fantastic Night (still in his prime, lush and startling) and instead of Roth, Szerb’s mythic, desperate, erotic Journey by Moonlight on how that world fell apart.
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It seems insane, completely indefensible to me, to say the code was never the hard part. Learning how to code at a high level would take you all the way to senior software engineer/architect. The only people saying this simply have no idea how things really worked in software
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A dump of the archive of all the Smalltalk Report from 1991 to 1996. There are some interesting articles that cannot be found on the web:
github.com/Ducasse/Smalltalk…
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Phil Williams. My boss’ boss at Apple. Surfer dude, feet on his desk. We guys asked each other over lunch “What does Phil do all day?”
Then Phil left.
“Oh.”
I’m sorry, Phil.
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One of the very best illustrations of the nature of social media is the number of accounts responding to disagree about the understanding of gravitation with *Edward Witten*. (Whose nail clippings probably know more math and physics than the accounts.)
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There's a fantastic paper about this called The Discoveries of Continuations by John Reynolds. homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadle…
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"a computer scientist who doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing"
RIP Tony Hoare.
blog.computationalcomplexity…
Astronomical spring and meteorological spring are important, of course, but tomorrow is the most important day of March: sartorial spring, when Prof. Wallingford flips the bit and switches into shorts for the year.
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i am pretty sure every song i have ever written was inspired by “boys of summer”. a total masterpiece.
I'd like to think a lyric in @mattnathanson's "Still" was inspired by one in Don Henley's "Boys of Summer." I want to believe every fan of the power of words can build on something great to which we've been exposed. It would affirm there are endless possibilities out there...
Go Tristan and the Panthers! @UNImbb
The 2025 GPAC Player of the Year is Dancing in 2026 with Northern Iowa! Congratulations Tristan Smith and @UNImbb!
@cunebulldogs
@CUNEmbb
@TristanSmitty1
This is the dream: train an LLM on the 20+ year cache of the session notes, assignments, and readings I've created for my classes, then use it to generate lectures, talks, and presentations. I'll replace myself and get out my hammock.
gocomics.com/doonesbury/2026…
Been there, done that. @orzelc is one of my people.
#lifegoals
"Sir Eric Findlay died on good terms with his family, having lived long enough to earn the reputation of an eccentric rather than a nut."
(from "Loitering with Intent", by Muriel Spark)
