Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20dec2007
Simpledb simply sucks, finally one notices.
Huemul is a new implementation of Smalltalk, directly compiling to x86. (Where is the source?)
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
— Woody Guthrie, Pretty Boy Floyd
The continuation passing transform and the Yoneda embedding, “They’re the same thing! Why doesn’t anyone ever say so?”
Origin of Advice, as in defadvice, that is. Explained by Pascal Constanza.
Maven: Broken By Design, Charles Miller rants.
And the people held their breath when they heard about his death
Everybody wondered why
It was the big landlord and the soldiers that they hired
To nail Jesus Christ in the sky
— Woody Guthrie, Jesus Christ
Scripting — the fourth generation, Jean-Claude Wippler boldly claims: “If you’ve written more than 10,000 lines of code, it’s time to switch languages…” And after eight years, he’s still totally right.
Fun with Inform 7, small intro by Del Griffith.
Diagnostic Styling, by Eric Meyer. CSS outlines are easily forgotten.