Books
- Damn, Douglas Adams didn’t enjoy writing either 😟 (pic above)
- Math in Moby-Dick
- Pynchon’s piece in the NYT Books section
Tools and practices
- In which I develop an unhealthy obsession with small mechanical keyboards: The Planck
- They can be ergonomic too
- On bringing back the old git email flow
- VSCode is really, really big
- Why Mastodon isn’t the full solution to the problems of Twitter
- Keeping my eye on the development of the Lem editor
Misc
- Unlike the 90s and before, the government is trying hard to report UFO sightings, but no one cares
- The fascinating account of Walter Pitts (never knew about the connection with Norbert Weiner and the earlier beginnings of what came to be known as Cybernetics)
- A counterpoint tale from academia, on certain ideological forms
- David Suchet on how he speaks like Poirot
- Chris Hedges sounds the alarm
- Some Tom ‘n Jerry for you: Cat Concierto
- Meeting the “soul guards” of Gengis Khan
Systems
- Un-intuitive performance trade-offs
- Sussman on flexible systems
- On biologically-inspired computing
- Another fun Gilad Bracha talk
- On Smalltalk
- On Unison
- On Tuple Spaces
- Looking at some good ideas that were forgotten with Joe Armstrong, a short while before he passed away
- A manifesto on Protocols, not Platforms
Programming
- A take on Async programming in Rust
- Apparently, Python includes Tcl
- The continuing relevance of the Solid principle
- The Linux kernel is nothing like what it was 15 years ago when I last mucked around in it … here’s a look at the intersection of
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