Pierce Darragh pdarragh

Approachable PL Papers for Undergrads

On September 28, 2021, I asked on Twitter:

PL Twitter:

you get to recommend one published PL paper for an undergrad to read with oversight by someone experienced. the paper should be interesting, approachable, and (mostly) self-contained.

what paper do you recommend?

Cookie Recipes

As promised: my cookie recipes! I used a gluten-free one-for-one substitute instead of regular flour.

Jam Thumbprints
Ginger Molasses Cookies
Peanut Butter Blossoms

Finally got around to setting up an x86 instance of Homebrew via Rosetta to install x86 Racket. Here's all the steps I took.

First, ensure Rosetta 2 is installed:

$ /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta

Then install x86-64 Homebrew. However, I've also kept the regular Apple Silicon Homebrew. Turns out they require different path prefixes anyway, so the regular one is at /opt/homebrew while the x86 one is at /usr/loca/homebrew. To install the x86 one, I did:

	import argparse

	from pathlib import Path

	"""
	Run this by doing:

	$ python3 better_io.py /path/to/file

	This version uses the `type` parameter of the `add_argument` function to pass

	type color =
	\| Red
	\| Green
	\| Blue
	\| Black

	type row = color list

	type screen = row list