One of Clojure’s biggest strengths is that it is backed by the JVM, and has good interoperability with the Java libraries.  When I needed to implement a simulation with events that should be executed in order of their timestamp, I was immediately tempted to use Java’s PriorityBlockingQueue, since neither sorted-map nor sorted-set supported two events [...]

Discovered that WordPress has a great built-in feature that allows you to post entries by email. Setting it up was easy…and it may give me a way to post updates when I’m behind Nazi firewalls.