Now

What I am up to right now (updated weekly; last update: 27 November 2023). Inspired by Derek Sivers.

I live in Conway, Arkansas with my wife and three children (ages 12, 6, and 2.75), where I am an associate professor of computer science at Hendrix College.

Teaching

This semester, I’m teaching two classes:

Just one more week of class and then final exams/project presentations!

In the spring I will be teaching:

and I’m starting to think about those a bit. CSCI 322 just needs to get loaded back into my head; CSCI 365, on the other hand, needs a major overhaul.

Projects

In the fall of 2021 I started developing a game called Swarm and built a small open-source community around its development. So far we have made a few official alpha releases, and development continues to hum along.

I continue to develop disco, a functional teaching language for discrete mathematics. I’m currently working on a number of improvements around the type system and error messages, and improving documentation and tutorials.

I’m writing a functional pearl to explain/derive Fenwick trees in functional programming terms, and plan to submit it to a special issue of the Journal of Functional Programming.

I enjoy solving problems on Open Kattis, for fun, learning, and as preparation for teaching Algorithms and coaching the Hendrix programming team. Since the summer I’ve committed to getting a minimum of 2 points per day.

I am also working on putting together a programming contest to be hosted at Hendrix at the end of March 2023.

After many years of hosting my two blogs on Wordpress, I’ve gotten completely sick of it and am slowly but surely building out some replacements with Hakyll.

Reading

Things I’m reading right now:

Playing

I’m currently playing Tears of the Kingdom which is a fantastic and worthy successor to Breath of the Wild. It took me somewhere around 150 hours to get Breath of the Wild to 100% completion; I’m currently 215+ hours into Tears of the Kingdom, and have completed the entire main storyline to the end credits, but am still nowhere near 100% completion; slowly working my way through a bunch of checklists.