Sam’s Blog
Lua Table sorter, etc.
Let’s look at a Lua Table sorter. Also, thoughts on cancel culture in 2025. [Read more] (2025-09-13)
Lack of empathy
I look at the escalation of political violence and how both the left and right are in a place where they are losing empathy for people whose views they disagree with. [Read more] (2025-09-11)
Left-wing lies
As I type these words, right wing political activist Charlie Kirk (pictured) has been shot dead in cold blood. We do not know who killed him or what their motive was, but it appears to be a left-wing motivated political killing. [Read more] (2025-09-10)
Thoughts
In this blog, I talk about life in México, and the font used for this blog. [Read more] (2025-09-08)
Incel myths
I look at and refute a couple of incel myths in this blog. [Read more] (2025-09-06)
Remembering Marshall
Marshall was a friend and father figure to me at a very key coming of age time in my life. I remember my time with him. [Read more] (2025-08-25)
Moving to México
I have moved to México so that my daughter has a chance to learn Spanish and become fully bilingual, and so that she can get to know the mother’s side of her family better. To celebrate our move, I have upated the font on my website. [Read more] (2025-07-31)
Lua table iterator
Let’s look at an interator which lists all of the keys of a Lua table in sorted order. Both string and numeric keys are allowed, and all string keys will be listed before all of the numeric keys. [Read more] (2025-03-09)
Free ebook
I have spent a month writing a free open content (public domain) e-book about programming in Lua. While Lua’s terse reference manual is open content, the official book for programming in Lua is proprietary. I wrote this book as a guide to programming in Lua that is open content, and that is geared towards Lua 5.1, the most commonly deployed version of Lua out there. [Read more] (2024-05-15)
February 2023
Hello, everyone! [Read more] (2023-02-28)
New music released
I have deleted these songs because sharing my music with the public is sharing a very private and vulnerable part of me. Since I only got limited positive feedback, I have decided to make the songs private. [Read more] (2023-01-28)
MaraDNS 3.5.0035
To end 2022, I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0035. This release adds support for large block lists which use little memory. [Read more] (2022-12-28)
MaraDNS updates
I have been making a lot of MaraDNS updates this last week. Let’s go over them. [Read more] (2022-11-29)
The midterms
This blog is about the midterms. I also have made a new MaraDNS release. [Read more] (2022-11-18)
MaraDNS 3.5.0025
I have released MaraDNS 3.5.0025 [Read more] (2022-11-02)
Angela Lansbury
The great Angela Lansbury has died today. [Read more] (2022-10-11)
MaraDNS work
This blog is a short summary of the work I have been doing on MaraDNS. [Read more] (2022-10-09)