ddar is a free de-duplicating archiver for Unix. Roughly like a private tarsnap, thus worth investigating.

Bug 647959 - Add Honest Achmed’s root certificate

First draft of R7RS small language available

nginx-1.0.0 stable version has been released.

Programming in Standard ML (PDF), 2011 edition.

Programming in Scala, First Edition, by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, and Bill Venners is now available for free in HTML. A book worth reading.

The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System, by Dennis M. Ritchie (1979). Required reading, and always worth a re-read.

Plan9 on Guruplug, some notes.

“Hot Tubbing an Online Community”, perhaps this is it.

Man Unveils Interactive Toothpick Sculpture of San Francisco That Took 35 Years to Create, WJW.

Songs of Songs, What are the 100 greatest Jewish songs ever?

Typeface As Programme, by Jürg Lehni.

Water Towers of Ireland

Monopoly Home Rules

Shipping an Obelisk

Neominimalist 2

Blood and Sand

How to hack yourself a standing desk in 3 easy steps, an illustrated guide.

sabotage, a new distribution based on musl and busybox. Yes, I bootstrapped a new Linux distribution.

Kona, an open-source implementation of the K programming language, is making great progess and recently switched to the ISC license. Early K documentation can be found at the Wayback Machine

Russ Cox at The Setup, now thats a setup. (I didn’t know he did OEIS, and it’s interesting that he uses unison and not tra.)

Implementing McCarthy’s AMB Operator in Javascript Using a Trampoline, by Patrick Logan.

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing

Slow Reading: the affirmation of authorial intent, by Lancelot R. Fletcher. “I am a teacher of slow reading.” So says Nietzsche.

Aerotropolis: An Interview with Greg Lindsay, at BLDG BLOG.

Three Poems About Girls, by Rory Marinich.

Tron Legacy special effects, and how Emacs got in there.

List of lists of lists, on Wikipedia.

RFC 6123: Adaptation of RFC 1149 for IPv6 and RFC 6127: Regional Broadcast Using an Atmospheric Link Layer

OpenMDNS is an ISC licensed MDNS/DNS-SD implementation for OpenBSD. It aims to be a full replacement for Bonjour or Avahi but with much much less code.

pcc 1.0.0 has been released.

Elisp gets lexical scoping

The Evolution of Writing, by Hans-Eduard Meier.

How Slavery Really Ended in America

Garamond or Garamont?

The Future of Books

Tail recursion and debugging, priceless.