NIX, a 64-bit Plan 9 kernel with some new ideas. HPC could be Plan 9’s new home.

Announcing Inferno for Android phones, “The Hellaphone runs Inferno directly on top of the basic Linux layer provided by Android. We do not even allow the Java system to start.” Video and screenshots.

diod is an I/O forwarding server that implements a variant of the 9P protocol from the Plan 9 operating system. When paired with a modern version of the v9fs Linux 9P client, diod allows a file system to be exported over a TCP/IP network in a manner similar to NFS.

VirtFS is 9P support for QEMU.

dunst, a dmenu-ish notification system. Awesome, finally!

Buxton Collection, “Explore his collection of input and interactive devices that he found interesting, useful, or important in the history of pen computing, pointing devices, and touch technologies.”

iOS is anti-UNIX and anti-programmer, (aren’t most GUIs?).

Guilt Through Algorithmic Association

“Don’t Talk to the Police”, by Professor James Duane.

Amanda told me this, rest of blog NSFW but recommended too.

The most expensive shot in silent film history

Iced coffee and tea: [not] taking the heat

Buses on Quantum Schedules

Obituary for Michael Stern Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg. RIP.

Why not Convergence? We need to realize SSL-CA has failed and models where each user doesn’t care for its own security are inevitably unsafe and prone to attack.

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good, nice material well presented. I quickly found some things there that are difficult to find in the official manuals.

Safecast and CC0, Joi Ito: “Just because something is legal, doesn’t mean it’s ethical.”

Scala use is less good than Java use for at least half of all Java projects, insightful summary post of a lengthy discussion by David Pollak.

netsniff-ng is a free, performant Linux network analyzer and networking toolkit. The Git HEAD contains some interesting utilities too (e.g. curvetun).

Nex is a lexer similar to Lex/Flex that generates Go code instead of C code and supports nested structural regular expressions.

Deft is an Emacs mode for quickly browsing, filtering, and editing directories of plain text notes, inspired by Notational Velocity. (Looks quite like my NB.)

Scrubbing Calculator, by Bret Victor. Very nice.

Apple’s Designers Work Towards Storefront Symmetry, WJW.

Divas do Dylan, the true gems are in the comments.

Muphry’s Law, my most bitter typo (misspelled my name) was in a letter to Knuth, pointing out a typo.

Impact / Collapse

Math Love Story, heteronormative but mathematical.

Protecting Artists

mathbook

GitHub Flow, this is continuous delivery done right.

Ceres and Oberon, Then and Now, talk at Oberon Day 2011 by Niklaus Wirth and Paul Reed.

A jpeg is worth 1000kb, essay on ZORK, Colossal Cave Adventure, and the landscape of the text-based adventure game.

HP-12C Special Edition and HP-15C Re-Release, for $79 and $99. I wish they reissued the HP-16C too.

Searching for Dave Fischer: A Look at “Do Not Peer Into Void”, sounds exciting.

A functional/logic programming tidbit in Mercury, some day I’ll learn it.

Bob Dylan and George Harrison playing tennis together in 1969

40 Year Old 3D Computer Graphics, by Ed Catmull et al.

Minecraft in Minecraft, oh my. (Now do a meta-circular evaluator.)

Skallelujah, WJW.

Permission