- A John Carmack interview from way, way back. Legendary.
- Rapping on cartoon impressions (I was … very impressed!)
- This month in Archaeology #1: examining the evidence of a massive bronze-age battle.
- Bit of a reality check for me, I suppose: the paths forward for “older” software engineers
- This month in Archaeology #2: evidence for Vikings trading in the Americas a thousand years ago (!)
- Glamorous Toolkit, an unsung framework in the equally unsung Pharo ecosystem. Well, one day.
- Supporting BitTorrent v2 (remember that? from the days before blockchains? 😅)
- I found this chronology of someone having all kinds of other different jobs before ending up in software engineering, very inspiring.
- A reworking of human origins
- Julia compared with Chapel (ooh)
- Yanis Varoufakis on … various things. I like listening to this guy 🙂
- On tech bullshit
- On the beginnings of “simulating democracy”
- On the recent Nvidia->Arm acquisition
- On the struggle to get Electron built/packaged under OpenBSD
- On Jim Jones’ friends.
- On some of what “UNIX cost us”
- As someone who’s thoroughly enjoyed a lot of Steven Pinker books, I find this relentless smearing of him a bit disheartening
- Strange galaxy sightings
- Some fairly persuasive Elixir evangelism
- Something I need more of: reading fewer books
- Something on databases
- Funny? Sad? Scary? I report, you decide: “The internet is being protected by two guys named Steve”
- This month in Science #1: how oysters tell the time
- A nice selection of HN comments
- Great funny talk on Cobol
- Fantasizing and cataloguing, non-POSIX file systems
- On the “$1 Microcontroller”
- Gene Kim (of the Phoenix Project, and Unicorn Project), on Clojure
- Stephen Kell interviews Richard Gabriel. Legendary.
- A different kind of fusion: lattice confinement
- The limits of single neurons
- This month in Science #2: Crows are smarter than you thought
- A real-life-cyberpunk-cryptocurrency-what-just-happened incident
- A humorous take on the technical interview
- Speculations on Neanderthals
- The New York Times engaging in a bit of revisionism
- An awesome spaceflight blog (oh if I had the time …)
- Un-anticipated side-effects of a trip to the dentist (spoiler: he lost his memory)
- Mountains on the moon
- Some clarification on what algebraic data types are
- Sign of the times? “Birds falling out of the sky in mass die-off”
- On what makes a good REPL
- A very interesting way to use Tinderbox
- Speculating on the future of FreeBSD
- Speculation on the future of … Linux? Microsoft? “the desktop”? One of those
- DIY memristor crossbars
- A light rant on K8S (and comparisons to Erlang)
- On old plans for missions to Mars
- If you like pictures of abandoned places: an old power plant (my favorite is at the top of the post, but click through for more …)
Generally interesting links – Sep 2020
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