Dan Drake 🦆
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Dan Drake 🦆
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Former #softwareengineer, current #mathematician, college #math, #computerscience and #datascience lecturer in #stpaulmn #Minnesota at #Macalester College.

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@maddemaddigger it's a struggle, but also a delightful situation: you can submit your sequence and be the discoverer-of-record for it!
December 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
...and what's interesting about thinking about such esoteric text editor behavior is that one realizes many of those ideas could be implemented in emacs.

#emacs #esolang #esoeditor
December 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thinking about esoteric programming languages inspired me to imagine...esoteric text editors!

If you can say "a programming language that [insert some interesting thing]" you can do the same with text editors, right?

A couple I thought of:

A text editor that will only write a file to an […]
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December 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
@marxistvegan you have Murder on the Orient Express, so you're willing to do murder mysteries in a "bottle" environment (think "ship in a bottle") where all the suspects and so on are confined inside the vehicle.

If you're flexible about "train" and up for a murder mystery in a spaceship, I […]
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December 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Another little detail of everyday life here that makes me happy: owls!

There was a pair of great horned owls in my old neighborhood, and I didn't expect there would be any in my new neighborhood in Saint Paul. But last night I heard an owl. Pretty sure it was a barred owl […]
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November 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM