Computing
- On making less software
- On the microprocessor to the personal computer
- On how there might be a lot of efficiencies up for grabs right now
- On Gopher and Gemini (i.e. as alternatives to “the web”)
- The astonishing performance of M1
Programming languages/tools
- Bram Molenaar talk about Vim plugins
- On the dominance of VSCode
- Emacs in odd places … and while we’re here, batteries included with it
- On the relevance of “no-code”
- Looking back at ten years of Erlang
Movies/TV/Music
- HG Wells reviews Metropolis (from 1927 !!)
- Surfing Youtube, I discovered Sovietwave this month
- I just had to find out more about the palace prowler since I watched The Crown
People/world
- An interview. With Carl Jung. 60 years ago.
- The Pentagon’s “UFO unit” will make some findings public (… but in 2020, we have bigger things to worry about)
- On whether “the internet is different” … or an accident
- On modern forms of censorship
- Up until a few decades ago, we had typewriter artists
- On starting with pen and paper
Science
- The slow, decades long process of building a bridge that lasted for centuries
- A niche item of interest, about a certain haplogroup’s presence in prehistoric North America
- On the crystal armor of leaf-cutter ants (and some tips on how to get rid of them, if you ever need to!)
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