Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes. It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. The solution is by nature nonconformist. Really nifty, I’d like to see a web version of it.
A regular expression matcher in Scheme using derivatives, “Many assume that pattern-matching a regular expression requires NFA conversion followed by back-tracking search or DFA conversion. Using the derivative of regular expressions, it’s possible to write a simple pattern-matcher without NFA conversion.” (Cool blog else, too.)
A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being Aburden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to The Public, by Jonathan Swift (1729).
Die revolutionäre Kraft des Pissoirgestanks, 100 Jahre Haber–Bosch.
Push-pull functional reactive programming, by Conal Elliott.
Haiku Project Announces Availability of Haiku R1/Alpha 1
The 10th Agda Implementors’ Meeting, slides are up.
First handmade subpixel type family, ever, 3px x-height!
DragonFly Release 2.4, now with 64-bit and DEVFS.
LifeWiki, the wiki for Conway’s Game of Life.
Terminus for Mac OS X, good pixelfont.
Handy Household Sex Toy Tips, PNSFW.
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