Monthly Curations: May 2020

How Google ruined the internet :-)
On malleable programming environments
ACM made a bunch of good stuff free for a while
Inspiring story on how the Crafting interpreters book was completed
On “the power of Prolog”
On the understandability of computer systems
An interesting (and old) paper on “Common Lisp, typing, and mathematics”
On ZIO
(on that note …) on “the death of Scala”
A sort of cross-post, for fans of Zizek: A pervert’s guide to programming languages
Comparing Linux and FreeBSD
On overcoming the grip of Von Neumann Architecture
Advocating for Emacs (yes!)
Using “boring technology” to good effect
A fun song by Peter Norvig