Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15mar2008
dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. Works a lot better than I thought!
Clojure, Clojure, we want Clojure, read the comments for why having dynamically scoped functions in a statically scoped language can be really nice. I really need to have a closer look.
Dan Ingalls demos Lively at Google, saved for future reference.
One blue star / Sets on the hill
Call it back / You never will
One more star / Sinks in the past
Show me something / Built to last.
— Grateful Dead, Built To Last
Idris: A language with dependent types, with promising goals.
Administrative Debris, Ryan Tomayko on his site redesign and the new administration interface, which is brilliant really.
L’Esguard: quite possibly the worst meal of my life.
Come hear Uncle John’s Band by the riverside,
Got some things to talk about here beside the risin’ tide.
Come hear Uncle John’s Band playing to the tide, come on
Along or go alone, he’s come to take his children home.
— Grateful Dead, Uncle John’s Band
kottke.org is ten years old today, gratulations! And enjoy the review of designs, I still do remember the boxy yellow one.
Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit, pretty nasty but really life-saving trick in certain circumstances.
Frink is a practical calculating tool and programming language designed to help us all to better understand the world around us, to help us get calculations right without getting bogged down in the mechanics, and to make a tool that’s really useful in the real world. It tracks units of measure (feet, meters, kilograms, watts, etc.) through all calculations, allowing you to make physical calculations easily, to mix units of measure transparently, and ensures that the answers come out right.
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