Tikhon Jelvis

@jelv.is

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I like programming languages. A lot. Especially Haskell. Tools, types and functions.

some crows and then more—a lot more—crows all flying to the same tree it's a pretty good tree, so I understand
the old Amtrak logo which looks a lot like the Haskell logo, just symmetrical over the horizontal axis and extending far more to the right
A little black cat intently looking at me through a narrow side-window next to my front door
zoomed out view of a black cat looking into my foyer
the "computer dictionary and handbook" by charles j. sippl with a delightfully retro-futuristic 60s cover the title and author are all lowercase, typeset in a sans-serif monospace typeface
An elevator panel where, apart from numbered floors, we also have UB, LB and G
a dumpster full of garbage, with a logo on the side reading "cwd"
a screenshot of the delightfully web 1.0 India e-visa page, with a marquee tag near the top and some straight-up clip art graphic design? clearly India's passion
a dramatically lit shot of me waving my hands around behind a podium, with an oddly concerned expression on my face
Two books leaning on each other in a little free library, spelling out "Deep Learning in JavaScript Smells like Dog"
Peter Magyar sitting with a cat on his lap, with a black and white car yawning in the background and a dark gray cat sitting right in front of the camera, moodily
a 5 lb bag of shelled Georgia Pecans from the Hudson Pecan Company
me, sitting on a sofa in an orange flat cap with a black kitten on my head and a tortie kitten climbing on my chest
me, sitting on a sofa in an orange flat cap with a black kitten on my head and a tortie kitten climbing on my chest
A metal sign for the International Brotherhood of Magicians in Vienna.
a view of Strawberry Creek in Codornices Park, Berkeley remarkably sylvan for being in the middle of a residential area, just a few blocks away from my house!
a slightly scruffy desaturated tortie scratching her ear and looking super content
A little free library made up of 8 separate tree stumps, each with its own book container and a little peaked roof. They're arranged in a semi-circle around some stone steps, and have colorful little doors and windows.
Two decorative snowmen made from three pumpkins painted white and stacked on the porch stairs in front of a house
The cover of a vintage cookbook titled "Microwave Cooking for One"
a screenshot of the colorForth editor, with a program written in a mix of garish colors
a poster for Cat Video Fest, playing in Elmwood on Aug 2nd and Aug 3rd at 1PM
A display from a book store, featuring a yellow book title "A *Co-*Program for Graphic Design".
a gray cat peeking out through some dense foliage; hard to spot, but still totally visible
a picture of a bunch of picture books displayed in my living room, in front of a Miro painting reproduction there are a few different editions of alice in wonderland in the middle, with a number of other books around there is also the belly of a black cat with a white paw poking out
the cover of Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned, with some kind of chaos theory butterfly visualization on it
the courtyard of the ENR2 building on the University of Arizona campus, a modern design out of concrete and rusted steel shaped to look like a slot canyon, with plants growing down the sides
the cover of splendid city, designed to look like a face card with a gun-toting cat and a witch
“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.” ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
white book cover titled "computer dictionary and handbook" by charles j. sippl, with all the text lowercase, and an abstract digital-looking pattern of blue squares and white numbers on a black background
a bird drawn out of a circle taking up most of the tile, with a small bird head, tail and two tiny feet protruding out in the slivers of remaining space
A fire hydrant leaking water, with a sign attached reading "work in progress" in large letters
A few cherry trees in full blossom with Moffitt Library in the background
The cover of the old edition of Lud-in-the-Mist that I picked up recently. It's a colorful, vaguely medieval design of a young person pulling an apple out of a river full of floating apples, with a medieval city and rainbow in the background. The overall aesthetic is pretty wild, different from "normal" fantasy covers in a way that's hard to pin down in words.
Illustration from a Richard Scarry book of words. The word for the illustration is "hole". A Scottish terrier is contentedly sitting in a house with a hole in the roof while it's raining. Then, when it's sunny, the terrier climbs up a ladder and pokes his head out of the hole to enjoy the sun. Text under the illustration: Haggis has a hole in his roof He never fixed it because on rainy days it is too wet to work. And on sunny days it doesn't need fixing.
I was the person who first deployed Python at Goldman Sachs. At the time it was an "unapproved technology" but the partner in charge of my division called me and said (This is literally word for word because partners didn't call me every day so I remember) Err....hi Sean, It's Armen. Uhh.... So I heard you like python.... well if someone was to uhh.... install python on the train... they probably wouldn't be fired. Ok bye. "Installing python on the train" meant pushing it out to all the computers globally in the securities division that did risk and pricing. Within 30mins every computer in goldman sachs's securities division had python and I was the guy responsible for keeping the canonical python distribution up to date with the right set of modules etc on Linux, Solaris and Windows. Because it was unapproved technology I had a stream of people from technology coming to my desk to say I shouldn't have done it. I redirected them to Armen (who was a very important dude that everyone was frightened of). The core engineers from GS went on to build the Athena system at JP and the Quartz platform at BAML.
A screenshot of my work-in-progress blog post with a pull quote that says "They see experts as 'beginners with more knowledge' rather than people whose expertise allows them to operate in a categorically different—and more effective!—manner."
An info insert from the linked article saying "Terraform, being written in Golang, makes no such distinction between “empty array” and nil."
A screenshot of part of a config file showing `ddos_ip_addresses = [...]`
Abusing Unicode characters as operators in order to get to-do list notation in Haskell. The whole thing uses a Writer, so running it actually creates a list of Todo and Done values!
The cover of "If You Can't Measure It - Maybe You Shouldn't" by Carsten Busch. The subtitle is "Reflections on Measuring Safety, Indicators, and Goals". The cover has a blue background with two white rulers, each of which has a red sign crossing it out.
A little toy bunny in a festive red costume with a weird smile
A blue sedan with the hood and mirrors covered in red-and-white holiday-patterned gift wrap
Two turkeys standing on a wall and eating seeds from a bird feeder hanging on a tree.
Nozarashi Gosuke in a robe covered with skulls made up of cats. Each skull on the robe is comprised of white cats and kittens cuddling together.
Google Photos results for "orange cat" full of decidedly non-orange cats on orange backgrounds.
A faded "Nuclear Free Zone" sign on top of a "Berkeley City Limit" sign, next to a wall of yellow flowers.