Interesting stuff from the last month:
- Meta: last month of the year, and one where I was busy with work and vacation
- Very interesting deep-dive on “Type-Safe GraphQL with Ocaml”
- Scaling up Quantum Computers
- My periodic reminder that Octopuses are smarter than you think
- An early episode of ‘hate speech’ and free speech clashing (trivia bit: features John McCarthy)
- Funny-ish/true-ish set of “falsehoods programmers believe about programming”
- Sometimes you need to get perspective in life. So take a look at relative galaxy sizes (spoiler alert: the Milky Way is smaller than you think …)
- Opposite perspectives on what languages mean
- Fabulous overview of a real-world quantum computing offering using Common Lisp
- Description of a state-of-the-art car production line
- Another excellent deep-dive on the “Anatomy of a Haskell-based application” (prefer this to broad overviews sometimes)
- I’m a sucker for good historical pieces, so here’s an account of the journey “from bare metal to serverless”
- I never link to HN comments, but when I do (insert obligatory meme), it’s a hilarious account of obscure application bugs (teaser: OpenOffice never prints on Tuesdays)
- Nautilus magazine interviews Roger Penrose on his opinion of consciousness. Don’t miss it.
- I find it bizarre that UFOs are a thing again. Except this time instead of the Pentagon doing the debunking, it’s doing the leaking. Who’d have thought …
- Either cool or scary: complex systems theorists used food prices to predict recent bouts of political instability.
- Nice Golang example of dataflow programming
- There should be more “playable” stuff like this: Complexity Explorables
- Meanwhile, a brilliant deep dive science article on our “stellar” history (and where gold comes from)