Oh man and I totally forgot all the super cool work on OCaml’s new modal type system!

And finally, this was the first year I really started using Lean in anger. Lot’s of great work on making a proof assistant nice and ergonomic. It’s a really wonderful language to work in!

Cool and wacky work from Neil Walkinshaw on trying to get a formal solution to the “stopping problem” in random testing. arxiv.org/pdf/2405.17019. This formulation has a bunch of limitations/assumptions, but I really enjoy the framing and line of thought.

Google’s work on automating the creation of fuzz harnesses seems promising for lowering the barrier to robust software: security.googleblog.com/2023/08/ai-p...

One time I was in the TSA line and the employees in the Clear line started taunting us lol.

Yeah, if the answer to "is this practical?" is "no but it's cool", that's totally fine by me lol. I hate writing parsers and am always looking for ways to hate it less.

Modern Operating Systems - Global Edition

Ah I’m talking about “Yacc is Dead” (which I know was a draft), but it motivates itself very practically.