Welcome
About Me
Hello. I am an artist, a musician, a writer, a craftswoman. I have an education in the Liberal Arts and the Classics. My study of Latin, German and French has taught me a love of quality and perseverance. I'm now the sort of computer scientist who finds the homoiconicity of Lisp and the terse expressiveness of Haskell extremely satisfying.
I believe that deep human expertise is required to solve modern problems. Every time we digitise a book and throw it away, never to be read again, every time we break the chain of knowledge transmission from one generation to the next, we jeopardise the resilience of our cultures and our means of survival. I have spent the last twenty years absorbing every skill I was exposed to. I am passionate about teaching them to anyone who will listen.
That's why I'm starting a course in person in Melbourne to teach women the fundamentals of computer science. You can find more details here.
If you'd like to see some of my own programming work, you can find it here.
About this Blog
This blog is where I post explanations of tough technical topics I have learned, as well as some of my thoughts on matters of art and culture that I care about. I will be adding more educational posts on art, music and technology over time. Feel free to browse the different sections and find articles that interest you. This website is entirely hand-designed, written, and coded. If you experience any issues using it, please get in touch.
Contact Me
If you would like to get in touch with me, you can email me at daliasblog@proton.me or connect with me on LinkedIn. Let me know if you experience any issues using the site. I am also happy to hear your thoughts about the blog, or simply to chat if you find what I write about interesting.
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Acknowledgements
The font I am using for this website is Boecklins Universe Regular, which was a font developed in 1904 by Arnold Böcklin and widely used by Art Nouveau artists. It's now in the public domain. I found it on 1001fonts.com. It is supplied under an Open Font License. I don't need to acknowledge them, but I appreciate what they've done, so I will.
As a sidenote, if this font is difficult for you to read, Reader Mode will work on any page except this one. As this StackOverflow answer explains, I seem to have too many links here. Oh well. If Reader Mode doesn't show up on any of the other pages, you should be able to force it by appending about:reader?url= to the beginning of the url.
The border piece at the bottom of the page comes from a stock image site called Magnific, from this collection. I don't know who made it but it doesn't appear to have been made with AI. I cut the piece out of the page it came in painstakingly in Krita myself. I may update the site to use an image I can better attribute at some point.
Finally, this website is hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.net (hence the domain name). The name might raise some eyebrows, but they don't seem to have any weird political opinions. Here's what they say about themselves. Thanks to their new scraping protection feature, this blog should be completely immune to scraping by datamongers trying to turn my words into slop for their chatbots.