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I listened to this famous enka song called "Yume wa yoru hiraku" (夢は夜ひらく), "The dream opens at night", performed by also famous folk singer Kan Mikami and not yet famous Okinawa Electric Girl Saya.

This version is a combination of the lyrics of the hit version by Keiko Fuji and the lyrics Mikami wrote for his version in 1972, which was banned for its negative portrayal of Modern Japanese Culture.

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=_jDZOgGGxFs

The song starts like the Keiko version

赤く咲くのは　けしの花白く咲くのは　百合の花どう咲らいゃいいのさ　この私夢は夜ひらく

"Poppie flowers bloom red,lily flowers bloom white,I wonder how I should bloom.The dream opens at night"

But then it's Mikami's lyrics, and they are grim realism:

八百屋の裏で泣いていた子供背負った泥棒よキャベツひとつ盗むのに涙はいらないぜ

"I was crying in the back of the grocery store.A thief with a child on his back.Even though I only stole a single cabbage.I don't need tears"

And it gets worse. But it is a very powerful song.

In the past months I have written a series of blog posts on functional programming with a particular (but by no means exclusive) focus on the Raku programming language. If you're curious about functional programming, I think this series might be a good if maybe somewhat challenging and idiosyncratic introduction. It starts with the very basics but covers some more advanced concepts further on.

The suggested reading order would be:

1. "Cleaner code with functional programming" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/decluttering-with-functional-programming/2. "Roles as Algebraic Data Types in Raku" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/roles-as-adts-in-raku/3. "List-based parser combinators in Haskell and Raku" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/list-based-parser-combinators/4. "Function Types" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/function-types/5. "Encoding types as functions in Raku" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/universal-interpreter-part-1/6. "A universal interpreter" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/universal-interpreter-part-2/

Not essential but fun: "Everything is a function" https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/everything-is-a-function/

#functionalprogramming #rakulang

No nice story for this one as I don't know what it is. Let me know if you do!

#florespondence #scotland #nature #photography

@toneji There certainly is a lot of beauty.

This looks like a miniature purple foxglove. It's tiny, about 5 cm.#photography #fediart #florespondence

While we're on tiny flowers, I think this is Geranium robertianum, "death come quickly". But there are a lot of very similar members of this family.#photography #florespondence

@toneji I like them a lot. They smell very nice too, especially at night.

After a gap of half a year, finally another hill walk.

Taking the train as usual, so had to wait until that was allowed again. Fortunately it was very quiet. Not the usual route from Balloch to Craigendoran, because the Balloch train is not to be trusted. Instead, walking back along the ancient Balloch-Cardross coffin road onto Stoneymollan Muir, and there turning West along the John Muir Way to cross the Highland Boundary Fault line and descend towards Craigendoran.

It was a grey, rainy day so not great for pictures. Still, the little camera does a decent job on plants in any weather.

This is rosebay willowherb (Chamaenerion angufolium), which to me is "wilgeroosje". I always associate this plant with late summer. With grey skies to set the scene.

#photography #florespondence

And this is common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum which in Dutch is called "kamperfoelie", from its other Latin name Caprifolium.It is not perfectly in focus but still pretty I think.#photography #florespondence #fediart