Sam’s Blog
Remembering Marshall
Marshall was a friend and father figure to me at a very key coming of age time in my life. I remember my time with him. [Read more] (2025-08-25)
Moving to México
I have moved to México so that my daughter has a chance to learn Spanish and become fully bilingual, and so that she can get to know the mother’s side of her family better. To celebrate our move, I have upated the font on my website. [Read more] (2025-07-31)
Lua table iterator
Let’s look at an interator which lists all of the keys of a Lua table in sorted order. Both string and numeric keys are allowed, and all string keys will be listed before all of the numeric keys. [Read more] (2025-03-09)
Free ebook
I have spent a month writing a free open content (public domain) e-book about programming in Lua. While Lua’s terse reference manual is open content, the official book for programming in Lua is proprietary. I wrote this book as a guide to programming in Lua that is open content, and that is geared towards Lua 5.1, the most commonly deployed version of Lua out there. [Read more] (2024-05-15)
February 2023
Hello, everyone! [Read more] (2023-02-28)
New music released
I have deleted these songs because sharing my music with the public is sharing a very private and vulnerable part of me. Since I only got limited positive feedback, I have decided to make the songs private. [Read more] (2023-01-28)
MaraDNS 3.5.0035
To end 2022, I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0035. This release adds support for large block lists which use little memory. [Read more] (2022-12-28)
MaraDNS updates
I have been making a lot of MaraDNS updates this last week. Let’s go over them. [Read more] (2022-11-29)
The midterms
This blog is about the midterms. I also have made a new MaraDNS release. [Read more] (2022-11-18)
MaraDNS 3.5.0025
I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0025 [Read more] (2022-11-02)
Angela Lansbury
The great Angela Lansbury has died today. [Read more] (2022-10-11)
MaraDNS work
This blog is a short summary of the work I have been doing on MaraDNS. [Read more] (2022-10-09)
A eulogy for djbdns
This blog is an example of how outspoken, confrontational people have a hard time doing actual productive work. [Read more] (2022-09-25)
Chess on 9/11
On the 21st anniversary of September 11, I look at how online discussion about Niemann is devolving. [Read more] (2022-09-11)
Baseless accusations
This blog is about the unfounded serious accusations being made against super chess grandmaster Hans Niemann. [Read more] (2022-09-06)
Democracy
This blog is about the importance of retaining America’s democracy. Also, I go over a recent blitz chess game between Hikaru Nakamura and Alireza Firouzja. [Read more] (2022-09-02)
Round-up
A round-up of various things in the second week of August, 2022. [Read more] (2022-08-11)