Why I’ve also joined the good guys, Tim Gowers: “The short version of what I want to say in this post is that a platform is to be created that will make it very easy to set up arXiv overlay journals.” Great news!
texlive.js, is TeX in Javascript (using Emscripten). This is plain awesome.
Introduction to Result.t vs Exceptions in Ocaml and Experiences using Result.t vs Exceptions in Ocaml
blkreplay is a GPL’ed toolkit, driving the block layer of Linux (or other Unix-like OSes) while measuring latency and throughput of IO operations for later visualization (so-called “sonar diagrams” and others).
Fontmatrix is a free/libre font explorer for Linux, Windows and Mac.
Real World Crypto 2013, by Adam Langley.
No Pictures. Only Words. Peter Watts’s eulogy for his father. Recommended.
The N+7 procedure, invented by Jean Lescure of Oulipo, involves replacing each noun in a text with the seventh one following it in a dictionary.