- 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
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