---
-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.'
---
-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
-tags: gaming
+tags: gaming
---
<p style="text-align: right">
---
-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
-tags: gaming
+tags: gaming
---
<p style="text-align: right">
---
-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'
+postid: 040
title: 'Europe at the end of 2015: a chronicle'
excerpt: A second piece of synthetic journalism.
date: December 19, 2015
---
-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
---
-postid: '046'
+postid: 046
title: Ok, I was wrong, it seems that Google is indeed "making you stupid"
date: April 24, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '047'
-title: 'The Tar Pit: about [ii]'
+postid: 047
+title: The Tar Pit: about [ii]
date: April 29, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
tags: meta
---
-postid: '048'
+postid: 048
title: slither.io, and a few thoughts on the unfairness of nature
date: May 3, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '049'
+postid: 049
title: Further on the myth of "software engineering"
date: May 14, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '04a'
+postid: 04a
title: On security
date: May 29, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '04b'
+postid: 04b
title: We
date: July 16, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '04c'
+postid: 04c
title: The young Boy, the brave Man and the old Man (fabellae hermeticae)
date: July 24, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '04d'
+postid: 04d
title: On the future of computing hardware
date: August 7, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '04e'
+postid: 04e
title: On system reliability, or, a top-down approach to (dispel the myth of) "software engineering"
date: August 18, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '04f'
+postid: 04f
title: Freedom is Slavery, or how and why everything costs
excerpt: On the pitfalls of doublespoken equality.
date: August 22, 2016
---
-postid: '050'
+postid: 050
title: Placing the cornerstone for The new Tar Pit
excerpt: Much like the old one, only slimmer and more maintainable
date: September 18, 2016
---
-postid: '051'
+postid: 051
title: Day of the Tentacle
date: October 22, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '052'
+postid: 052
title: On the unambiguous usefulness of tools (in software and elsewhere)
date: November 5, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '053'
+postid: 053
title: I wrote a blog.
date: November 6, 2016
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
---
-postid: '054'
+postid: 054
title: Deșteaptă-te, române!
excerpt: The dissection of a national anthem
date: November 26, 2016
---
-postid: '055'
+postid: 055
title: Let's find out why most educational institutions yield graduates that make dumb (or otherwise unknowledgeable) people
excerpt: A companion piece to Grade Inflation and La ce imi serveste mie radicalurile?
date: January 3, 2017
---
-postid: '056'
+postid: 056
title: Player Piano
date: January 22, 2017
author: Lucian Mogoșanu