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A comparison between languages > I’ve noodled on it for a bit now, and I think the reason I like forth and scheme and other languages with something like a repl is because when I start a new proje…

A note on pedagogy of programming: web.archive.org/web/20050...…

From this HN comment: > The central question for any programming language isn't how comfortably it welcomes casual newcomers; it's how effectively it creates a human:machine interface for…

The problem with Scheme is that there are too many of them; TIL about Loko scheme. scheme.fail/manual/lo...…

Picking email providers is hard now, we’re spoilt for choice. I have similar thoughts on Fastmail and iCloud: www.brycewray.com/posts/202...…

From an HN comment: Impactful? Designed and deployed credit card readers used in gas pumps back in 1979. (Sold to Gasboy) Wrote a fine tuner to allow communication between satellites (precursor to…

A random HackerNews comment: > And now it hits me, for the first time, shamefully: the sense that Urbit is Pynchonesque... it's often said of Pynchon that nostalgia for the 60s is the animatin…

More Magnatiles fun !!…

Clearly a labor of love and very cool: floor796.com…

Paradoxes of technological change > Paradoxically, we often find it more comfortable to believe outlandish theories of the near-future than highly logical theories rooted in clear observation of m…

A grim use of the Apple Watch’s features: appleinsider.com/articles/...…

DD * MM = YY 11/2/22…