---
-postid: 000
+postid: '000'
title: First post
excerpt: In which the journey through The Tar Pit begins.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 001
-title: The Tar Pit: an introduction
+postid: '001'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: an introduction'
excerpt: Which introduces the reasoning behind the decision to create The Tar Pit.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: July 25, 2013
---
-postid: 002
-title: The Tar Pit: technicalities
+postid: '002'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: technicalities'
excerpt: A dive into technical aspects of The Tar Pit.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: July 27, 2013
---
-postid: 003
-title: The Tar Pit: about
+postid: '003'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: about'
excerpt: The Tar Pit's description becomes available.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: July 29, 2013
---
-postid: 004
+postid: '004'
title: On art
excerpt: Lucian shares his views regarding art.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 005
-title: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
+postid: '005'
+title: 'Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers'
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: August 4, 2013
tags: gaming
---
-postid: 006
+postid: '006'
title: The Tar Pit on Github
excerpt: The Tar Pit goes Open Source.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 007
-title: The Tar Pit: changes
+postid: '007'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: changes'
excerpt: A few changes are made to The Tar Pit's inner plumbing.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: August 10, 2013
---
-postid: 008
+postid: '008'
title: Religion and the closed world assumption
excerpt: An essay on the formalisms behind atheism and the relevance of religion in modern society.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 009
+postid: '009'
title: ROSEdu Haskell workshop, first edition
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: August 15, 2013
---
-postid: 00a
+postid: '00a'
title: Conversation view in Mutt
excerpt: Making some elements of Mutt's user interface look more like Gmail.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 00b
+postid: '00b'
title: Romania's dumb nationalism
excerpt: Critique on today's Romanian nationalism.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 00c
-title: The Tar Pit: changes [ii]
+postid: '00c'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: changes [ii]'
excerpt: A review of additional changes made to enhance The Tar Pit's look.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: August 26, 2013
---
-postid: 00d
-title: Composition operators: pipes
+postid: '00d'
+title: 'Composition operators: pipes'
excerpt: In which we describe Unix pipes using application and composition.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: August 31, 2013
---
-postid: 00e
+postid: '00e'
title: Cloud software is unreliable
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
excerpt: A weak argument.
---
-postid: 00f
+postid: '00f'
title: A change of mentality
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
excerpt: Romanian mentality is changing, only not in the way we expect it to.
---
-postid: 010
+postid: '010'
title: Haskell, the Lego of programming
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
excerpt: In which I argue the utility of functional programming in education and day-to-day activities.
---
-postid: 011
+postid: '011'
title: J.J. Abrams tried to pull a Wrath of Khan and failed
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
-excerpt: An analysis of Star Trek: Into Darkness.
+excerpt: 'An analysis of Star Trek: Into Darkness.'
date: October 6, 2013
tags: video
---
---
-postid: 012
+postid: '012'
title: On context awareness in computing
excerpt: An analogy between natural language and computing.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 013
+postid: '013'
title: On the rights of animals
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: December 1, 2013
---
-postid: 014
-title: Romania at the end of 2013: an exercise in geopolitics
+postid: '014'
+title: 'Romania at the end of 2013: an exercise in geopolitics'
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
excerpt: A piece of synthetic journalism.
date: December 8, 2013
---
-postid: 015
+postid: '015'
title: I have no mouth, and I must scream
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: December 22, 2013
---
-postid: 016
-title: The Tar Pit: changes [iii]
+postid: '016'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: changes [iii]'
excerpt: Journal entry for The Tar Pit version 0.3.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: January 2, 2014
---
-postid: 017
+postid: '017'
title: The mechanics of socialism
excerpt: Socialism analyzed from the point of view of an engineer.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 018
+postid: '018'
title: On post-religion
excerpt: In which I coin a new term for popular culture.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 019
+postid: '019'
title: Passwords versus passphrases
excerpt: A layman's analysis of XKCD's "Password Strength".
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 01a
+postid: '01a'
title: Grim Fandango
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: February 23, 2014
---
-postid: 01b
+postid: '01b'
title: Some of the things I've read
excerpt: Previously dubbed "On reading".
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 01c
-title: 3D printing: what you (probably) haven't considered (yet)
+postid: '01c'
+title: "3D printing: what you (probably) haven't considered (yet)"
excerpt: A few predictions regarding the future of open hardware.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: March 22, 2014
---
-postid: 01d
+postid: '01d'
title: On numbers, structure and induction
excerpt: Peano arithmetic for the dumb
date: March 29, 2014
---
-postid: 01e
+postid: '01e'
title: I die when I look in the mirror.
date: April 12, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 01f
+postid: '01f'
title: Bitcoin as infrastructure [i]
excerpt: In which I argue that Bitcoin is more fundamental than mere currency.
date: April 27, 2014
---
-postid: 020
+postid: '020'
title: On the difficulty of discussing musical works
date: May 17, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 021
-title: Re: Go-to statement considered harmful
+postid: '021'
+title: 'Re: Go-to statement considered harmful'
excerpt: Yet another rant on the difficulty of the discipline of programming.
date: May 24, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 022
+postid: '022'
title: Bitcoin as infrastructure [ii]
date: June 1, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 023
+postid: '023'
title: Maybe I was wrong about that commenting thing
excerpt: Re-dissecting the thorny issue of blog comments.
date: June 8, 2014
---
-postid: 024
+postid: '024'
title: Broken Age
date: June 21, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 025
-title: Type algebra: the semantic ambiguity of nested lists
+postid: '025'
+title: 'Type algebra: the semantic ambiguity of nested lists'
excerpt: A short incursion into limitations of algebraic types.
date: July 12, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 026
-title: The Tar Pit: the first year
+postid: '026'
+title: 'The Tar Pit: the first year'
excerpt: A quantitative analysis.
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
date: August 2, 2014
---
-postid: 027
+postid: '027'
title: Bitcoin as infrastructure [iii]
date: August 9, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 028
+postid: '028'
title: Building business, or why (some) Gypsies are smarter than (most) Romanians
excerpt: A case study on self-regulating systems.
date: August 16, 2014
---
-postid: 029
+postid: '029'
title: The Walking Dead
date: September 8, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 02a
+postid: '02a'
title: Online media is feeding on your tears
excerpt: In which I publicly shame the rubbish that is new media.
date: September 20, 2014
---
-postid: 02b
+postid: '02b'
title: How and why systemd has won
date: September 27, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 02c
+postid: '02c'
title: The mathematics and philosophy of hyperoperations
excerpt: Another dive into the world of mathematical foundations
date: October 5, 2014
---
-postid: 02d
+postid: '02d'
title: LinuxCon Europe 2014
date: November 8, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 02e
+postid: '02e'
title: On the inherent harmfulness of political correctness
date: November 16, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 02f
+postid: '02f'
title: On usability, a case study
date: December 6, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 030
+postid: '030'
title: Interstellar, or why deus ex machinae in science fiction are a bad idea
date: December 20, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 031
+postid: '031'
title: Bitcoin as infrastructure [iv]
date: December 26, 2014
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 032
+postid: '032'
title: Your worth to humanity
excerpt: A thought experiment on the Renaissance man.
date: January 2, 2015
---
-postid: 033
+postid: '033'
title: The Blackwell series
date: January 25, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 034
+postid: '034'
title: The inevitable transition back into religiousness
date: February 7, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 035
+postid: '035'
title: With our balls clean
excerpt: Or how Homo sapiens survived in the dark ages of the first personal computers.
date: February 14, 2015
---
-postid: 036
+postid: '036'
title: Password security, a game theoretical approach
date: February 28, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 037
+postid: '037'
title: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo, and the absolute necessity of offending people
excerpt: Je ne suis pas Charlie, mais je pense encore
date: March 8, 2015
---
-postid: 038
+postid: '038'
title: Humanity's informational archive™
date: May 3, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 039
+postid: '039'
title: Aferim!
date: June 20, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 03a
+postid: '03a'
title: The linguistic barrier of operating system design
excerpt: A proposal to redesign the OS architecture from first principles.
date: July 11, 2015
---
-postid: 03b
+postid: '03b'
title: Conservatism meets liberalism
excerpt: A critique of modern politics.
date: July 20, 2015
---
-postid: 03c
+postid: '03c'
title: The myth of "software engineering"
date: August 9, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 03d
+postid: '03d'
title: Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania
date: August 29, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 03e
+postid: '03e'
title: Glasgow Haskell Compiler no longer suitable for teaching
date: November 8, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 03f
+postid: '03f'
title: Android, the bad and the ugly
date: November 22, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 040
-title: Europe at the end of 2015: a chronicle
+postid: '040'
+title: 'Europe at the end of 2015: a chronicle'
excerpt: A second piece of synthetic journalism.
date: December 19, 2015
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 041
+postid: '041'
title: Cloud software is unreliable [ii]
excerpt: Or, the cloud is unreliable.
date: January 16, 2016
---
-postid: 042
+postid: '042'
title: Category theory and its application in software engineering
date: January 30, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 043
+postid: '043'
title: On the failure of marketing (and civilization in general)
date: February 14, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 044
+postid: '044'
title: When the law does more harm than good, or an exercise in independent thought
date: March 12, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: 045
-title: Academic hogwash: an empirical study thereof
+postid: '045'
+title: 'Academic hogwash: an empirical study thereof'
excerpt: In which we analyze the circular motivations behind academic publishing. Probably a rehash of some other essay, but it's ok to do it nowadays.
date: April 9, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu