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Grill + Veggies + Pasta
Two of our new favorites summer pandemic activities come together in this dish which is gardening and grilling. Grilling because I got a new grill and I intend to use it. We also joined our community...
View ArticlePorting Lucene: Iteration 1 – Decisions about how to start porting…
So time to make a list of files to port. Lets see how many java files there are… find lucene |grep ".java" |wc -l5502 Hmm…. OK let’s try focusing on Test cases instead… find lucene |grep ".java" |grep...
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The most carrot pasta I have ever made.
During the year of Covid I started a garden. I’ve had plants in pots before but this was the first time I had a section of land dedicated to plants. It turned out to be a great education opportunity...
View ArticleHow porting Lucene made me care about bit operations…
I am going to be honest… I haven’t touched binary operations since I attended a university assembly class about 20 years ago. So when I came across the writeVInt and readVInt methods from DataOutput...
View ArticleLessons from porting Lucene: Equality
Java and Rust take two different approaches to evaluating equality of objects. Yes on the surface they are trying to accomplish the same thing but the differences may result in double the methods....
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Making Hot Sauce
I am a big fan of Hot Sauce. Every time my in-laws visit from Belize I ask them to bring Marie Sharps hot sauce. Yes it is spicy but it also has so much flavor. Recently I tried to make my own hot...
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