- The latest (and probably the last 😕) sequel to The Trip is out
- File this under “labor of love”: Dune, the “novel cut”
- A thorough review of spacecrafts in science fiction
- An overview of Fuchsia
- An interview with Curtis Yarvin (of Moldbug)
- More speculation on Oumuamua, this time … as a hydrogen iceberg (?)
- Software engineering within SpaceX
- On “becoming a hacker”
- A look at the history of Smalltalk (in response to this)
- A study in perseverance: pushing an Akka cluster to 10000 nodes
- Looking at Çatalhöyük, 8000 years ago
- An upcoming (photo-filled!) book on the N-1 rocket
- The title says it all here: Akira Kurosawa’s spectacular hand-painted storyboards
- I liked this piece in NYT on the “first discovery” of famous artists etc.
- A poetic tract on order
- Just a randomly good Python Keynote
- … followed by a random rant on Forth
- (riffing on a common theme here) Andrew Sullivan asks if there is room for debate. Peggy Noonan talks about struggle sessions. Someone tries to make a case for liberalism. Sulzberger ponders. Tekkie weighs in. On the “great unravelling”. On “narrative collapse”. Taibbi opines on the news media.
- I found Star Wars set, abandoned in the desert, somewhat cool
- … and also these people-sized Salmon (made it to the cover story!)
- Interesting, illustrated, and possibly useful, notes on “Building a second brain”
- Looking back at RMS
- Speaking of which, an interesting demo involving Guix and Guile Scheme
- The whole ARM chip space has suddenly gotten interesting (not to speak of the chip space in general)
- Tonsky rants about (Im-? Un-?) personal computers. Looking back at an older plea. Ranting about Electron.
- Comparing Python and Guile Scheme
- I realized I was unaware of a bunch of very interesting developments “dating-the-origin-of-humans-type-stuff”
- Watching old TempleOS videos is both strangely pleasurable, and sad.
- On Terence Malick’s movies
- Looking at the dominance of Java today
- On storytelling
- “Computation all the way down”
- An interesting concept in the design of public spaces and personal lives: Legibility
- On Gravity
- “The sun seen through the earth” (fascinating!)
- Looking back at the innovative B5000
- The amazing Julia Evans looks inside Sqlite.
- On using
org-mode(and some more) - I found this explained a lot: The three tribes of programming
- Microsoft heavily advocating Rust now too (!)
- An old collection of links about Boids
- A review of Haiku, the open-source version of
BeOS - On why
CollapseOSis using Forth - The Wolfram Physics initiative (and while we’re here, a computational pumpkin)
- Someone predicting, in 2012, how it’s only in 2020 when we’ll really be in trouble