October 2020

Reading about improvements in solving the traveling salesperson problem, a classic in theoretical computer science, is the kind of reading I love doing on such a Sunday morning.

Grady Booch’s take on it also teased it perfectly:

The traveling salesperson problem reduces to extreme simplicity when no sales people travel anymore...

How about making the HomePod devices available in more countries?

I have many spare cables. But—of course—it’s the one I don’t have an alternative for that breaks.

Follow-up: The cable is replaced and works. Now, it’s just the usual macOS flakiness.