Project Hail, a project to provide language-neutral, OS-neutral, highly available distributed computing services that others may use to build cloud computing applications. Written in C by experienced kernel hackers, GPL2ed. Yay!
Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. “Hacking”, by Paul Buchheit. “Wherever there are systems, there is the potential for hacking, and there are systems everywhere.”
The loss of ZFS, excellent analysis by Lous Gerbarg on why ZFS isn’t a good fit for Apple.
djb, an ode to “the greatest programmer in the history of the world”, by Aaron Swartz.
The Risks and Benefits of Teaching Purely Functional Programming in First Year, “We argue that teaching purely functional programming as such in freshman courses is detrimental to both the curriculum as well as to promoting the paradigm.”
Ephemerisle, a sort-of-Burning-Man-like event for people who, instead of frying in deserts, prefer to drown in rivers, Danny O’Brien says.
pkgin, a tool to manage pkgsrc binary packages, apt/yum like.
A peek at Categories, a new Scheme object system.
Open-Access Text Archive at archive.org. 1,699,707 items!
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database, wonderful.
No Direction, Period. “Bob Dylan actually wrote every popular song in the last 35 years, every single one.”
How to shoot an anvil 200 feet into the air, WJW. I think I have a new hobby.
Succu Dry Sex in a Can, the world’s first vampire inspired sex toy for men.
NSFW.
Aesthetics of Commutative Diagrams
Thousands Protest Global Warming