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I write about software and finance, languages and literature.
Some Recent Posts:
WIP Coupling Language and Geography - May 2025 - Alex Alejandre
Historical linguistics (philology) teaches a lot about API/DSL design. While a decades old codebase may be a crime scene, human languages have endured magnitudes more churn:
Notes on Persianate India - Mar 2025 - Alex Alejandre
In the 1820s, the East India Company replaced Persian with English
How to Learn Persian - Mar 2025 - Alex Alejandre
Learning Tajiki Persian is faster and more eloquent!
Touring Older Persian Grammars - Feb 2025 - Alex Alejandre
Two hundred years of scholars and adventurers learned and taught Persian to yet more adventurers and scholars
A Few Hours Researching Transit - Dec 2024 - Alex Alejandre
A curious hour exploring energy economic’s impact on the Rust Belt and US industrial migration
History of Spanish Literacy - Dec 2024 - Alex Alejandre
How could Spain have only 30% literacy in 1900?
Lisp Curriculum - Sep 2024 - Alex Alejandre
Learn Scheme, Common Lisp ->maybe Clojure, with these books.