We have persistent objects, they're called files.

No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

One is that the perfect garden can be created overnight, which it can't.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.