- Can you believe this talk was delivered in 1995? 1995?! We’ll get there soon…
- One person’s scientific method to improving as a programmer. Impressive. Don’t think I could do it.
- Either hilarious or depressing: the Apollo-11 onboard computer compared to the current crop of USB-C chargers (… concluding that … yes, surely one of them could take us to the moon)
- Speaking of which, the hack that saved Apollo 14
- List of ideas in esoteric programming languages
- Been looking into Actor systems these days. No particular reason. Elixir. Akka. And … here’s one in C++
- Ruminating on the effects of available programming tools on us
- Remembering the lost promise of fifth-generation computing
- Barely understand this paper on growing cellular automata. Sigh … one of these days …
- Absolutely fantastic talk (with a demo!) by Carin Meier on controlling a drone using tiny Clojure snippets
- “State of the Onion” — 1998 talk by Larry Wall … triggered my nostalgia!(on that note, about the fall of Perl)
- Not really software, more like organizational/people wisdom
- On the suitability of Swift for Machine Learning
- Might have linked to this before, but still … RPG reminisces on patterns of software
- Showcasing OSX automation with Javascript
- A “critique of missing structure of operating systems” (!)
- Myths and tips for Common Lisp
- For your amusement: Programming metaphors for theological concepts, and … opinions on Javascript when it was released (1995)
- Predictions for 2020
- ESR’s notes on Go, and … some rants on Go
Month: March 2020
- An excellent book review by Peter Thiel (okay, more than that)
- Another thing universally felt, and then “discovered”: the polarization of reality
- The “out-of-Africa” date has been pushed back
- James Carville is not happy with the primaries. Well …
- Intriguing question about patterns on Viking’s clothes
- This is how I’d like to die if I was a musician
- The word neoliberalism is popular again, with different meanings for different people, so here’s the original “manifesto”
- Cyborg Jellyfish. Because why not.
- A look at rogue waves. Terrifying.
- Watched Free Willy with Tara, came across this story
- Surveying long-term disinformation campaigns on Twitter (in the pic above)
- Tiago Forte’s videos and notes on Notion
- “The disappearing conservative professor”
- An extract from Carl Sagan, a few decades ago … I agree with the author’s sentiment about “feeling creeped out in 2019”
- Zizek’s stance on the humanitarian crisis
- About Bernie Sanders and “young voters”
- In case you never saw the Zizek/Peterson debate
- On the subtleties skipped by the subtitles in Parasite
- Quillete on 1619 vs 1776
- Jellyfish with a little army of their own
- Amazing selection on Fermat’s Library, by Carlo Rovelli, on the disappearance of space and time