Greg Leppert

@leppert
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Director at Harvard working on AI and access to knowledge. Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center. “Mildly humorous” —New-York Gazette.
Websitehttps://leppert.me
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Punctuation for sale.,..
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Electric Clojure (formerly Photon) is now public! Electric is a reactive signals DSL for fullstack web UI, with compiler-managed network sync.

- fully reactive language
- multi-tier
- network-transparent
- strong composition
- multiplayer native

Final Portrait, 1976 - 1977 - Lucian Freud - WikiArt.org

‘Final Portrait’ was created in 1977 by Lucian Freud in Expressionism style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

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Dwarf Fortress developer discovers, as many have, that brittle Java/C++ style object hierarchies will ultimately betray you in a long running software project.
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https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/31/700000-lines-of-code-20-years-and-one-developer-how-dwarf-fortress-is-built/

700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built

Dwarf Fortress is one of those oddball passion projects that’s broken into Internet consciousness. It’s a free game where you play either an adventurer or a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. The simulation runs deep, with new games creating multiple civilizations with histories, mythologies, and artifacts. I reached out to him to see how he’s managed a single, growing codebase over 15+ years, the perils of pathing, and debugging dead cats. Our conversation below has been edited for clarity. 

Stack Overflow Blog
I’ve moved to multiple new addresses with this object in tow and I’ve finally accepted I have no idea what it is, what it’s for, and what to do with it. Any ideas? The cylinders are wood and the plastic screw is regular threaded on one side while reverse threaded on the other.
Reflection (Self-Portrait), 1985 - Lucian Freud - WikiArt.org

‘Reflection (Self-Portrait)’ was created in 1985 by Lucian Freud in Expressionism style. Find more prominent pieces of self-portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

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Extremely odd inglenook by Joseph Olbrich:
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