My name is Martin Sústrik. In the past I have written software projects such as ØMQ , nanomsg or libdill . I may have been the first one to use the term structured concurrency

. These days I

blog about random stuff. All the opinions stated here are my own. Any resemblance to opinions of other people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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* Technocratic Plimsoll Line * On Chesterton's Fence * Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat * Teaching to Compromise * On the Nature of Reputation SOCIOLOGY, EVOLUTION, COORDINATION PROBLEMS * Technocratic Plimsoll Line * On Chesterton's Fence * Jean Monnet: The Guerilla Bureaucrat * On the Nature of Reputation * Split-a-Dollar Game * Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (III.) * Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (II.) * Swiss Political System: More than You ever Wanted to Know (I.) * Institutional Senescence * In Search of Slack * The Politics of Age (the Young vs. the Old) * Coordination Problems in Evolution: The Rise of Eukaryotes * Coordination Problems in Evolution: Eigen's Paradox * Anti-social Punishment * Inadequate Equilibria vs. Governance of the Commons * Soviet-era Jokes, Common Knowledge, Irony * Research: Rescuers during the Holocaust * Suicide by Culture * "Being from a Worker Family" * Reputation Engineering, part III * Reputation Engineering, part II * Reputation Engineering, Part I * Centrifugal Governor or Why I am not a Libertarian STRUCTURED CONCURRENCY

* Graceful Shutdown

* Structured Concurrency Cross-language Forum * Announcement: A talk about structured concurrency at FOSDEM * Two Approaches to Structured Concurrency * Update on Structured Concurrency * Structured Concurrency in High-level Languages * Structured Concurrency * Getting rid of state machines (II) * Getting rid of state machines (I) * Event-driven architecture, state machines et al.

MISCELLANEA

* Hull: An alternative to shell that I'll never have time to

implement

* On the Nature of Programming Languages * Programmatic Code Generation: Composability * What Can Philosophers Learn from Programmers? * Composable Network Protocols vs. Encapsulation * Documentation Driven Design * Kaizen of Programming * Linguistics and Programming Languages * Note on Homesteading the Noosphere * Sure, we have imperative and functional. But what about cartesian

programming?

* SRE's review of Democracy * Performance of green threads and why it matters * Enforced Error Handling * Ecology of Software Quality * Let's stop kidding ourselves about APIs * Dissecting Software Component's Reproductive System

* Finish your stuff

* Reusability Trap

* Coroutines in C with Arbitrary Arguments * The Clockwork inside Game of Thrones

SOFTWARE

* ØMQ - a distributed messaging library * nanomsg - a distributed messaging library * libdill - structured concurrency

, in C

* cartesian - playing around with the idea of cartesian programming paradigm * tiles - code generator manipulating rectangular areas of text * grison - storing structures

with cycles in JSON

SHORT STORIES

* The Human Condition * Muqaata'a by Fahad Himsi (I.) * One-person Universe

* The Eb

* On Interstellar Communication * The Garden of Forking Paths

* A Microstory

MOMENTS MUSICAUX

* Lydian song

* The Birch

* Three simple pieces for piano

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