Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

11jun2006

Esterel is both a programming language, dedicated to programming reactive systems, and a compiler which translates Esterel programs into finite-state machines.

You won’t look like a dick!, “Overcome the effects of circumcision with an artificial retractable foreskin.” WJW of the month.

Caffeine makes people more open to persuasion, want another cup?

IMG_1011 by fixEf

Dissecting matz’s monster patch: lots of activity in 1.9, Mauricio Fernandez had a closer look at the recent Ruby development.

All we did was kiss
Days and days and days like this
All we did was kiss
Days and days and days—
All we did
— Dan Bern, All We Did

The Power of Prototype.js, by Kurt Cagle.

Symbol#to_proc Exonerated, all in all, a good idea.

Shiny and New: Emacs 22, Steve Yegge recommends. I’ve been using it for almost an year too, and can only advise updating. (And why does noone tell me about the new replace-regexp? Cool.)

She took away your troubles
Oh, but then again
She left pain
So, please save your life
Because you’ve only got one
— The Smiths, This Night Has Opened My Eyes

donkey by flok_ioc

Stupid Hash tricks for parameter passing. Not bad.

Monads, Kleisli Arrows, Comonads and other Rambling Thoughts, “I realised that I had rediscovered comonads and they now seemed entirely natural.” Even ordinary people can understand this good post.

Riby[sic] Conference 2006 with DHH, notes by Stoyan Zhekov.