Part 1: Anaphora and Complexity — Technically, I’m brain damaged. Reducing cognitive load is what originally brought me to functional programming. I find it’s a good conversation starter at meetups and the like. For about exactly one decade now I’ve had chronic migraine disorder — essentially one continuous migraine that never went away. I’ll leave discussing…

Originally a Facebook post I wrote to mark the passing of Seymour Papert. …

Based on a talk given at the Clojure NYC meetup — The thing that makes Clojure one of my favorite languages, the one I choose first when I want to fluidly bang out an idea, is its commitment to generic programming. Most people associate generic programming with C++ because of the Standard Template Library, but few are aware the ideas in…