PhilosophyKierkegaard
Kung Fu Panda's Phenomenology of Fatherhood
Kierkegaard warned us about Tai Lung.
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I make technical systems easier to understand and harder to misuse.
Hi, I’m Elijah. I work on APIs, SDKs, documentation, and language tools, with the occasional philosophical detour. This is where I write down what those systems teach me.
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CMetaprogramming
Statically-dispatched typeclasses in C (without some jank manual registry)
Or: How I stopped worrying and learned to count to two million in the preprocessor.
ReadBooks I keep close
- The Consolation of Philosophy St. Boethius “All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes.”
- The Dream of a Ridiculous Man F. Dostoevsky “I want to suffer so that I may love.”
- The Sickness Unto Death S. Kierkegaard “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world.”
- Pensées B. Pascal “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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