- The title says it all: Running a bakery on Emacs and Postgresql (!!)
- If anyone remembers Terry Davis, a BBC episode of The Digital Human about him, his life, his work (it’s one of those truly bizarre achievements)
- Cheering Drew DeVault for an insipiring side-project taken to Alpha and beyond
- On really teaching computational thinking
- Carl Hewitt (of Actors) on Reusable Scalable Intelligent Systems
- Extremely comprehensive set of musings on text editors
- Looking back at twenty years of Erlang
- Bit of absolutely hilarious satire (or at least that’s what I thought it was)
Note: Many parts of this post are true or at least plausible, but I did not actually install Emacs in my car. Neither should you.
- Ways in different programming languages, of achieving fearless concurrency, another comparison of “actor frameworks” across languages
- A video about live-coding … from a decade ago
- An interview of Arthur Whitney (of K and Kdb) by Bryan Cantrill
- Speaking of which … he’s part of an interesting new company now.
- An interesting comparison of Swift and Rust
- On switching to Plan 9
- A “real-life example” of using Datomic
- An adventure with the JVM, from one of the folks behind JRuby
- Another deep-dive into an example of JVM bytecode
- A “FUD FAQ” for Scala
- On the weird orbital movements of Neptune’s moons
- File this under “weird things parasites make their hosts do”
- An interesting interview on “the aesthetics of programming tools”
- Couple of examples of applying modern perf tools in Linux
- Command-line tools in Clojure!! Which work fast thanks to GraalVM!!
- Updates on Project Valhalla for the JVM (Part 1, Part 2)
- Interesting take on database indices vs hash tables
- Putting too cool things together: Smalltalk and Graal_ (one very old, and the other very new)_
- A look at new Garbage Collectors for the JVM (and a brief look at the equivalent in Go)
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