Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02jul2006
Preincrement plays, not about arithmetics actually, Mauricio satisfies the C weenies.
Red Rectangle is a comic about the glorious resturants of the immaculate communist states of the world. It shall enlighten workers over the globe and spark a great meat-based revolution in which the proletarians will rise up and crush the elitist fancy eateries where reservations are needed.
ERLang RunTime environment is an Erlang distribution system for both applications and Erlang/OTP framework. Needs 3–20 megabytes.
Moving Forth, by Brad Rodriguez. Do it yourself; must-read for everyone interested in Forth.
Mark Pilgrim’s list of Ubuntu essentials for ex-Mac users made Cory Doctorow switch too! Mass exodus a’coming?
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it’s just a part of it:
We’ve got to fullfil the book.
— Bob Marley, Redemption Song
common-lisp.biz provides the services you need to get the most out of the “Programmable Programming Language”.
How to do a pixel head, I admire people that can do this stuff.
Scheme48 Reference Manual, by Taylor Campbell.
Pluvo is a nascent experimental scripting language with an easy to use syntax, built in test facilities, and modern datatypes. Has some nifty ideas.
ApacheCon Europe 2006, slides and presentations.
Higher-Dimensional Algebra III: n-Categories and the Algebra of Opetopes, by John C. Baez and James Dolan. Whoa.
Why I am conservative about changes to Ruby, by David A. Black. Good points I mostly agree with.
Jim Baen, October 22, 1943 – June 28, 2006. “His e-texts were clear and in a variety of common formats.”
Blackpowder Rockets, by GhostOfTiber. Enjoy. ;-)
A Taste of Erlang, a Dynamic, Asynchronous Message-Passing Language, by David Chisnall. “‘Scalable’ Is the New ‘Fast’”.
And then I took this striped old piece of cloth
And tried my best to wash the garbage off.
But I found it had been used to wrapping lies.
It smelled and stank and attracted all the flies.
— Pete Seeger, The Torn Flag
Burning Flags, by Scott Adams. “I’d hate to chip away at my flag’s freedom feature.” (I actually thought it already was forbidden to destroy the flag, but nice to see it isn’t yet.)
Minix Tips, Tips for running the Minix Operating System Version 3. (It even has a Git mirror, cool.)