Adam Bard

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LearnXinYminutes is a static site (via Middleman) featuring short coding tutorials for a variety of languages. Nothing too interesting in the stack, but it has survived some good traffic storms for being a straight Nginx+static deployment, despite living on a 512mb virtualhost that also serves a bunch of other sites…

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Just what does “code as data” mean anyway? (2014)

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Recently, I’ve seen popular articles on macros and metaprogramming in Nimrod and Elixir . Both of these are wonderful metaprogramming systems, to be sure, but I couldn’t help but imagine some in the audience smirking inwardly – and occasionally less inwardly. What odd syntax! How out-of-place they are! If only there…