Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29mar2006
Zweigleisiger Treuetest, wie hammergeil. WJW.
Interview with Audrey Tang on Perlcast. Must-listen-to.
The World’s Most Maintainable Programming Language, chromatic continues. (And I tend to disagree more: “complete consistence” only works for super-humans. Compare Ruby and Lisp.)
Roll Your Own Frappuccinos, sounds good.
Persistent URLs: really easy (thank you open-uri, SOAP4R, Ruby), Mauricio uses Google to create persistent URLs. Nifty.
What would you do with half our money?, Buy a pony? Donate it to charity? Take your friends out to dinner? Throw it on the floor and roll around in it?
Eclipse over Africa inspires, but some hide indoors, actually, “some others hid indoors in fear of damaging their eyesight.”
Trying to be tender
With somebody I remember
In a night that’s always brighter’n the day.
— Bob Dylan, Seven Days
Planet Haskell aggregates Haskell blogs. Whee.
monadLib, a monad library for Haskell. The library provides a number of building blocks (called monad transformers) that can be combined to quickly construct very complicated monads.
Bit Stream Benchmarks, Implementing Bit Stream Manipulating Programs in Many languages.
Rails 1.1 Releases, And The Crowd Goes Wild, David Demaree collected some links on the release.
REBOL 3.0 Roadmap, by Carl Sassenrath. “REBOL 3.0 is an entirely new REBOL that is being rebuilt from the ground up using many of the insights we have gained over the last eight years of REBOL usage.” Carl, the biggest mistake of REBOL was that it wasn’t free/open source. Don’t repeat that mistake again, please.
Nothing hypnotizes me
Or holds me in a spell
Everything runs by me
Just like water from a well
Everybody wants my attention
Ev’rybody’s got something to sell
‘Cept you, yeah you
— Bob Dylan, Nobody ‘Cept You
The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”, very sad indeed. :-/ (At least Apple seems to have fixed it in 10.4.)
Rugg is a hard drive and filesystem harness tool that allows you to test and benchmark drives and filesystems, by writing simple to complex scenarios that can mimic the behaviour of real-world applications. Uses a small DSL.
Tumbleblogs vs. RSS, Florian Munz vergleicht einige Methoden. (Da die Kommentare inzwischen leider schon geschlossen sind, hier meine Antwort: Anarchaia hat täglich mehr als 15 Einträge, daher wäre es schwierig(er), Feeds anzubieten, die auch noch den Inhalt der letzten Tage anbieten. Ausserdem wird tumblen dadurch für mich leichter, da ich alles sammeln und am Ende dann ästhetisch aufbereiten kann.)