The Social Graph is Neither, by Maciej Cegłowski. Must read.
John McCarthy, eulogy by Bertrand Meyer.
Sonnet for Dennis Ritchie
A dance for Steve
OpenBSD 5.0 has been released.
The Go Programming Language turns two
Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back, sigh.
Compact Google Reader, very useful userstyle.
bup.options, neat API for an option parser.
Implementation in Ruby.
slaughter is a simple tool which will allow policies to be downloaded,
via HTTP, from a central server and executed upon a local machine.
Uses Perl.
bitbucket.org/pmetzger/growl is an unofficial patched version of the
Growl 1.2.x sources taken from the last available public source tree.
(Read the last few paragraphs and spread the code.)
Treats Tropiques, an interesting mathematical concept.
Expense Calculator, by Ward Cunningham. Lovely use of awk.
Elzevir letter, ‘The style of type used by the Elzeviers in their
small editions of the classics. Now used as the name of a special form
of printing types.’
Capacitive Sensing, the Hard Way
RFC 3972: Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA), interesting idea.
Incredible Folded Paper Art, by Simon Schubert.
Fake Blinds Hide Light, But No Window
Das Belegte-Brötchen-Manifest