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11. October 2019
Back in 1902, mathematicians defined a set as follows:
A collection of distinct objects, where an object can be anything, including a set.
So, here are some sets under that definition:
{ 4, 5, 6 } { a, b, c, d } { 8, a, 🌍, “The concept of FOMO”, 🤔 }
But also:
A = { 0, 1, 2, A }
Where A is a set that has the element A, which is…itself.
For decades, mathematicians thought this was fine, until Bertrand Russell pointed out a paradox.
11. August 2019
Earlier this month, I needed to be able to send automated email in order to send daily roundups of stuff produced by my bots. Most of the APIs I saw for sending lots of email was for mass marketing (with the kind of pricing and data policies you’d expect to come along with that). So, I thought, email is well-established*, so it must be in reach of the common developer! I’ll just set up my own email server and mailing list.
Well, you know how this is going to go.
03. March 2019
Roughly 80% of the code in a module I just wrote will never come into play. This is because I was debugging a problem in the manner of Ron Weasley blaming Snape for some evil at the beginning of a Harry Potter book.
In my case, Snape is the Safari web browser.