Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack’s Anonymous Creator
Major Update on the 10,000 Year Clock Project
Improving the performance of Styx Based Services over High Latency Links, by Francisco J. Ballesteros, Enrique Soriano and Gorka Guardiola. Proposes a very lightweight and slick network file protocol, Op.
Data Model Independence, very good characterization of how data models relate.
The Apollo Display Manager, summarized by John Yates. Enlightening, also check the PDFs linked ([GS] gives a good idea of the system.)
Profiling Go Programs, by Russ Cox. Excellent demonstration of tools.
EKOPath 4 Compiler Suite going open source with support available. “This release includes documentation and the complete development stack, including compiler, debugger, assembler, runtimes and standard libraries.” The Fortran, C and C++ compiler is GPL3, the debugger is under a “permissive license”.
Ozma is a programming language based on Scala, with extensions regarding concurrency. It adds three paradigms of the Oz programming language to Scala: declarative concurrency, lazy execution (demand-driven execution) and message-passing concurrency.
50 in 50: Steele & Gabriel at RailsConf 2011
sxiv is a simple (or small or suckless) X image viewer that works better for me than feh or qiv.
jsmad is a pure javascript MP3 decoder, based on libmad.
On McIlroy, “Doug McIlroy doesn’t make system calls. System calls call Doug McIlroy.”
Rejecta Mathematica, Volume 2, Number 1
My K/Kona page, some K code.
Three arguments against the singularity, by Charlie Stross.
M.C. Escher’s “Relativity” cut and folded in paper from a single piece of 8.5”x11” cardstock.
NSKYC, the average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes.
Millie Brown: Nexus vomiting, 35min. PNSFW.
Mimi has pointy ears and Eunice has floppy ears
Hotel door hangers collected by my grandfather
Sexual urban legends on Wikipedia.