I came to you via a post on LL1-discuss. I like hearing about your opinion of computer culture as a woman and I think your ideas about programming languages and optimal blogging methods are very succinct and useful.

Keep it up.

Thanks, je. Any criticisms to pass on? I promise you won't hurt my feelings... Think of it like programming: if there's a bug in my writing, but nobody tells me, then I won't know to fix it. A lot of people, when dealing with other people, tend to take the Perl approach of just being silent when a problem arises. I'd really prefer the Python approach of fail fast and fail loud.

I found you though a link on Wisp's page and I felt it was a fairly decent chance that it was the same Kim I met in Boston through Wisp. Even if that isn't the case, I still found an interesting blog to read (I enjoy programming blogs even though I do less and less programming as time goes on).

I'm afraid I don't have much in the way of criticism (good or bad) to give here; I just enjoy reading your site. Although if I read something you wrote that I don't understand, I will make a point to point it out and ask for a clarification.

I think I ran across your blog on blogshares, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I kept reading because you tend to talk about some interesting programming issues, and I'm always looking for interesting opinions on that sort of thing.

I don't have any real complaints, just keep writing, and I'll keep reading ;-)

A few months ago I started researching a reading heavily in programming language design, etc. I came across your blog when I looked at 'Jatha'. It was a trigger for a major project of mine (since largely completed, but unreleased) to seemlessly incorporate templates/macros/code-generation into Java. Anyway, on one of my trips to your website to see what other interesting tidbits might be laying about, I happened across your weblog. It stuck because I liked the ideas you have, especially liked the hours-long reading/thinking tangents it sent me on, and was led to other interesting places like Ltu. These are the reasons I read in the first place, so I figure the site's a good match.

Bugs in your writing? Not that I've noticed. You have a clean, easily followed style.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

I'm another Jatha visitor, and a "Senior Java Architect" (whatever that is, it's a professional services position) with Sun. I believe I found you from googling "Java macro." You were on vacation at the time and the map of your trip struck me as admirably deliberate. I think I then came back around following an LtU link and was hooked. Now you are one of my "news/blogs" bookmarks.

As for criticism, I can't see much to criticize. I might disagree with a point you make now and then, but you tend to support your arguments well. I guess I worry that your blog might be taking away from some of the interesting projects you've come up with like Wiki Diamond, but that could be me projecting my own lack of focus. So here's hoping you're the next five posts to sweetcode!

I might be the only person who sought out the blog because I knew you in person. I was impressed by your range of interests and knowledge so I "googled" you and found this place.

I came to your blog via a link from another blog (don't remember which one now). Coincidentally the same week I also saw a post from you on ll1-discuss.

Why do I come here? Because I find that you always have something interesting to talk about, especially the programming related stuff. I also love your lucid writing style.

Keep it up...

You're interesting, so I had LiveJournal pick up your RSS feed. I think I saw a comment of yours on Dan Sugalski's blog a while back.