Dissecting the 128-byte raycaster, very impressive.

A simple alternative to De Bruijn indexing, from ICFP 2013, “The ‘library’ they developed is about 15 lines of code. When it was presented at ICFP, the audience was stunned.”

Why you don’t need to run SSHd in your Docker containers

!!Con Talk Recordings and Transcripts

Quantcast File System (QFS) is a high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system developed to support MapReduce processing, or other applications reading and writing large files sequentially.

Jr, a static, static content generator that moves the “generator” part to the browser. Quite clever.

How Emoji Get Lost In Translation, can’t wait for that fad to stop.

Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet, every drink in every Pynchon novel.

An Occult History of the Television Set

A VHS copy of ‘Hellraiser’ keeps appearing on top of this bus stop, and nobody knows why

8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1, by Jim Leonard. “A technical write-up of how I created 8088 Domination, which is a program that displays fairly decent full-motion video on a 1981 IBM PC.” Plain awesome.

30 years ago, on 19 June 1984, Bob Scheifler announced the X Window System.

The Fortran I Compiler (PDF), David Padua shows a few tricks used (2000).

Drawing Presentable Trees, by Bill Mill.

Feval: F-Algebras for expression evaluation. Using f-algebras to produce a statically typed functional programming language

Cgrep is a grep tool suitable for searching in large code repositories. It supports 30 programming languages and searches that go beyond the simple pattern matching. It enables context-aware filtering and semantic searches through wildcard and combinators.

SIMPLE-MTPFS is a FUSE file system for Linux capable of operating on files on MTP devices attached via USB to local machine that just works.

BoringSSL, Google now maintains its own OpenSSL fork.

Epic pancakes

Why nations exist

The Internet With A Human Face, Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk by Maciej Cegłowski.

As sinister dealers in mass death, the CIA could at least spare us its snarky tweets, by Ted Rall.

The Design and Implementation of BER MetaOCaml, Oleg’s reimplementation of MetaOCaml.

Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine, by Rainer Joswig.

A Taste of the Star Programming Language, which features speech acts.

canything is like dmenu for the console.

TEMLIB is a SPARC-32 compatible FPGA.

Donut Doubles

Xanadu materializes.

Press X to make sandwich – a complete guide to gender design in games, recommended.

Static energy consumption analysis of LLVM IR programs, by Neville Grech, Kyriakos Georgiou, James Pallister, Steve Kerrison, and Kerstin Eder.

Verification of a Cryptographic Primitive: SHA-256, by Andrew W. Appel.

Prefix Sums and Their Applications (PDF), by Guy E. Blelloch.

A wallpaper group is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. There are 17 possible distinct groups.

svnup is a lightweight, dependency-free, BSD licensed program to pull source files from an Apache Subversion server.

Dronestre.am, real-time and historical data about every reported United States drone strike

100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered in Block of Ice in Antarctica

Star Trek Stabilized

One Tap Quest

TCP/IP Turns 40

Gründungserklärung der Gefangenen Gewerkschaft der JVA Tegel

Ornaments in Practice (PDF), by Thomas Williams, Pierre-Évariste Dagand, and Didier Rémy. “We explore the feasibility and the interest of using ornaments in practice by applying these notions in an ML-like programming language.”

Your next conference should have real-time captioning, yes please!

titus is a TLS/SSL proxy server (like stunnel or stud) that protects you from vulnerabilities in the TLS implementation such as Heartbleed (or worse).

unix-history-repo, a git repository representing the Unix source code history.

Reverse-engineering the TL431, the most common chip you’ve never heard of.

GooBing Detroit, “Comparing Detroit property on Google Streetview (c. 2009) and Bing Streetview (c. 2012)”