2022-01-20
About
This blog's mission: to promote fun and interesting computing and programming ideas! It strives to be intriguing and instructive to both beginners and seasoned veterans by providing a wide breadth of programming-related information.
Target audience: beginner-to-intermediate.
Beej is a teacher, author, programmer, and computer enthusiast by trade and training. His general computer interests have made him a Jack of All Trades, Master of... Few, but maybe that's all one can hope to be in the ever-accelerating computer field. He is also interested in pretty much everything else, especially, but not limited to, geology, maps, cartography (he participates in data generation for OpenStreetMap), and GIS, caves and spelunking (he was chair and newsletter editor for the Diablo Grotto chapter of the NSS, and has received a certificate of merit for volunteer hours worked with the Cave Research Foundation at Lava Beds National Monument), and pirates.
Oh, and teaching.
If you find any error's, typosd, or just good old-fashioned wrongness, please (the author begs you) report them in either the comments section for the page or via email. Given the small number of computing fields in which he is a so-called "expert", there are always going to be people who know more about these topics than he does, and he will definitely make mistakes when pushing into fields that are new to him! By Excalibur, he swears it!
This blog is run on a collection of Makefiles, sed and shell scripts, and cmark-gfm. It also uses highlight.js, MathJax, Disqus, and a bit of custom CSS. The majority of the writing done in Vim or VS Code.
Finally, What's with the goats? The author likes goats for the following incomplete list of reasons:
- Goats are smugly the first domesticated farm animals
- Goats recognize the importance of the high ground
- Goats grant no quarter to poison oak
- Goats will not hurt you, except by head-butt
- Goats are able to eat grass and climb trees, thus defeating bovine and simian, alike
- Goats have a reputation for deviltry, but are secretly admired for it
- Goats pulled Thor's chariot and, despite being slaughtered nightly, never once complained