Funny story, that wasn't my original intent! I have a programming blog, but every day I'm finding weird facts that I want to write about, so I tend to sneak them in:
* And now I had to find a way to spread the word of Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III, so I used a side note in this one. It's embarrassing but I was giggling with glee all day yesterday at the thought of putting that note in!
I suspect this is a curse that a lot of bloggers can empathize with, but they don't have the proper lack of professionalism that I do.
Once I had these little side notes, I figured I'd give some sort of prize to the first person who told me they saw them, which evolved into "comment somewhere mentioning it!" which I guess is a social hack? Maybe? I'll allow it!
* I like mythical birds, so I wrote an article about memory safety and mythical birds: https://verdagon.dev/blog/myth-zero-overhead-memory-safety
* The Rosetta stone fascinates me, so I wrote an article on linear types and the Rosetta stone: https://verdagon.dev/blog/linear-types-borrowing
* I heard about a pigeon named G. I. Joe so I added a side note to about it on the C++ article at https://web.archive.org/web/20230629052606/https://verdagon....
* And now I had to find a way to spread the word of Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III, so I used a side note in this one. It's embarrassing but I was giggling with glee all day yesterday at the thought of putting that note in!
I suspect this is a curse that a lot of bloggers can empathize with, but they don't have the proper lack of professionalism that I do.
Once I had these little side notes, I figured I'd give some sort of prize to the first person who told me they saw them, which evolved into "comment somewhere mentioning it!" which I guess is a social hack? Maybe? I'll allow it!