Unix blues
From the foreword to "The Unix Haters Handbook" by Donald Norman, author of previous works like "The Trouble with Unix: The User Interface is Horrid", and "The Design of Every…
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Interesting premise, from six years ago yet ... oddly contemporary for a scifi movie. www.imdb.com/title/tt4...…
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A promising new Outliner! www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/ (I'm a Roam convert right now, and a simple outliner doesn't really replace that for me, but I can see this replacing plain writing nee…
Land trains: the largest land vehicles ever built
www.thedrive.com/news/3364... > The TC-497 is a truly remarkable feat of engineering. Capable of hauling 150 tons at 20 mph for nearly 400 miles (this range could be extended by carrying extra fue…
Black hole sun
Big respect for the technology that makes such imaging possible: public.nrao.edu/news/astr... > Because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, it appears to us to have about…
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Giant prehistoric worm: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/...…
Simple web programming (in Common Lisp)
It can be really simple. Stumbled across this ... ... and (yes, questionable aesthetics aside) decided to recreate it: Really does work as advertised: One-time stuff I had to run: (ql:quickload &…
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The deep complexity behind seemingly simple computer interactions: josh.works/dizzying-...…
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Ellen Ullman’s memoirs and an attempt to get at the "nature of code" lithub.com/ellen-ull...…
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The japanese influence in early "cyberpunk" sci-fi (here, Gibson's Neuromancer): jrogel.com/neuromanc...…
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