Recursive Rhymes on Reason

“Tarantella” — Hilaire Belloc
Two Dozen Poems · Entry 03 of 24 · English
5 hrs ago • Jasvir Nagra
“Quiet Night Thought” — Li Bai
Two Dozen Poems · Entry 02 of 24 · Classical Chinese
Sep 2 • Jasvir Nagra
“Old Pond” — Matsuo Bashō
Two Dozen Poems · Entry 01 of 24 · Japanese
Sep 1 • Jasvir Nagra

August 2026

Recursive Rhymes on Reason is coming back.
I started this as a place for ideas that sit somewhere between code, language, philosophy, mathematics, and poetry.
Aug 30 • Jasvir Nagra

March 2026

Names Are Handles
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
Mar 17 • Jasvir Nagra
Hogwarts: Names & Delegation
If part one was the theory, this one is wizardry.
Mar 17 • Jasvir Nagra
Gödel, Escher, Me — Part 1: The Coffeehouse I Tried to Host
I had this romantic idea of university.
Mar 17 • Jasvir Nagra

January 2026

I Am Not U
or I ≠ U
Jan 27 • Jasvir Nagra
Ezra Pounds Forests
In a Station of the Metro with Perl and Unicode
Jan 27 • Jasvir Nagra
Untranslatable
Lessons from what it means to translate a nursery rhyme into JavaScript
Jan 14 • Jasvir Nagra
Know It All: A Tour of Knowledge’s Limits
There are questions we don’t know yet, questions we can’t know ever, and questions where the answer literally can’t fit inside the universe.
Jan 7 • Jasvir Nagra

August 2025

No “Spukhaft” in Programming!
Evolving Languages for Collaborative Coding
Aug 1, 2025 • Jasvir Nagra
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