I totally love your blog! Especially these posts:

It’s like having a built-in Stradivari in each home appliance - https://lobste.rs/s/9sn4ry/ieee_floating_point_is_like_having_built

But if the language is crippled, it’s a whole different matter. “Look, a loop using templates!” Trivial stuff becomes an achievement, which feels good - https://yosefk.com/blog/fun-at-the-turing-tar-pit.html

That is, the only way to compute the values defined by the blocks of code is to “run” the code… Everything you represent as “data” can be processed by many different programs, which is good. Everything you represent as “code” can only be processed by a kind of interpreter, which is bad - https://yosefk.com/blog/code-data-and-interactive-programming.html

MS Windows defines a format for keeping the text & layout of dialogs, menus and the like… This means that you can create an editor for translating the text on the buttons into a different language - https://yosefk.com/blog/why-dont-we-have-a-word-for-it.html

And C++ FQA, of course