Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01oct2007
Slashdot Turns 10, happy birthday. May you get wiser with your age.
Programming Nu, a site about the new Lisp for OS X stuff.
And you’re clutching your phone
As you walk in the dark
And your smile’s got a twist
You’re looking so hardcore
— Rolling Stones, Let Me Down Slow
Hotwire is an intelligent hybrid text/graphical shell for developers and system administrators. Written in Python.
Rails 2.0: Preview Release, not really worth a 2.0, but a good step forward.
POW: Plain Old Webserver, by David Kellogg. “Turn the web on its head with the Plain Old Webserver (POW), which adds a server to your browser. The Plain Old Webserver uses Server-side Javascript (SJS) to run a server inside your browser. Use it to distribute files from your browser. It supports Server-side JS, GET, POST, uploads, Cookies, SQLite and AJAX.
Happy birthday, OpenSSH, Chad Perrin says. I don’t want to miss it.
You let somebody do the dirty work
Find some loser, find some jerk
Find some dumb ass do it all for free
Let somebody do the dirty work
Find some loser, find some jerk
Find some greaseball, yeah
— Rolling Stones, Dirty Work
Arboreal Isomorphisms from Nuclear Pennies, “The game of Nuclear Pennies is a game for one player played on a semi-infinite strip of sites, each of which may contain any non-negative number of pennies. The aim is to achieve a target configuration of pennies from a starting configuration by means of penny fusion and penny fission.”
Fast content-aware image resizing, Mauricio does it faster and nicer in OCaml.
Marching cubes is a computer graphics algorithm for extracting a polygonal mesh of an isosurface from a 3D scalar field.