What Computers Cannot Do: The Consequences of Turing-Completeness

Please see the disclaimer. Assumed Audience: Programmers. All programmers. Discuss on Hacker News and Reddit. Epistemic Status: Confident with few doubts. Minor mistakes may exist, though. Corrections welcome. If you want to skip to the actual material, use this link. This post is meant to be informative, but it does have an ad at the end, which will be clearly marked. You have been warned! Introduction I used to think that my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science was useless, that I didn’t learn much that would help me in programming....

March 26, 2024 | 32 min | 6705 words

Year in Review: 2023

Please see the disclaimer. Assumed Audience: Clients of Yzena, users of Yzena software, and anyone curious. Epistemic Status: Happy, but a bit stressed. Well, 2023 is dead. And while it wasn’t the best year for so many, Yzena had the opposite experience. First, in February, I officially created Yzena as an LLC. I have held the domain yzena.com since 2017, and that was when I first planned to start a business....

January 1, 2024 | 2 min | 387 words

Projects in the Pipeline

Please see the disclaimer. Introduction I’ve mentioned before that I have ideas for an operating system. Well, beyond that, I have a few other things in the pipeline. These are listed in the order I plan to do them (right now). Yao Yao is my programming language. Plenty has been said about it already, but you can also peruse the documentation I already have for it. Name I have already written an explanation of Yao’s name....

July 28, 2021 | 3 min | 589 words