Monthly Curations: April 2020

On the differences in dynamic linking between Swift and Rust
Fascinating account on what it took for the PS2 (yes, for old-timers) to have the backward compatibility that made it popular
Another historical interest piece: the Taos Operating System
Fun talk about Perl 6
An even older article, Ted Nelson introducing “Hypermedia” in … (yes, I was a toddler then) … 1988
One of those things where I’m just gonna leave the headline here: “Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life”
Many “April 1st”s ago: an RFC for TCP Packet Mood
Remembering a 1980 article about Lisp as it was then.
A rant about web browsers
On the mathematical underpinnings and interconnectedness, of nature and computation
I remember coming across Matt Might’s blog a decade ago and … then I saw this talk that was really moving and inspiring