I recently had the need to typecast string values passed as query parameters to a controller action to their appropriate type. In solving this problem, I've learned a lot about Rails' typecasting layer, Ruby's typecasting methods, as well as a handful of edge cases. The result was a typecasting function that I think has a lot to offer.

A recollection of rocks, regret, and Snickers.

How can procedures be used to encode the logic of both infinite and finite sets?

A short meditation on death and life.

What is judgment with respect to the moral universe, how can it be used properly, and how is it often used improperly?

Is modern mathematics built on a logical fallacy? How ought we to understand infinite sets? What's a procedure? I'm starting to explore these topics as I think through the mathematics and logic of infinity.

Togglicons offers a single SCSS mixin for bringing customizable toggling icons into your web application.

I believe both that consubstantiation is reasonable and true. Here's a short argument for why.

The scar is wound and healing.

The scar is flesh and memory.

The scar is past and present.

We are a people of scars.

The world is broken; broken things are sharp; sharp things cut; cuts are wounds.

As a people of scars, we too are broken.

Yet...

I live a life of scars,

so small as to be invisible,

like the slivers and shards and fragments of shrapnel—broken and sharp—

that seared them into the fleshy bits of my me.