Go & Versioning, a bunch of posts by Russ Cox. I thought this was very naive at first, but now I think it’s great.
CTTK, a collection of constant-time implementations of primitive operations that may help in writing constant-time code, including non-cryptographic constant-time code. By Thomas Pornin.
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter Norvig is now available online for free.
WordPress Gutenberg, a new block-oriented editor for WordPress. (Tumblelogs won!)
TidalCycles is a language for live coding patterns. It allows you to make musical patterns with text, describing sequences and ways of transforming and combining them, exploring complex interactions between simple parts.
in which a compiler gets its wings, Phil Hagelberg praises Fennel, a Lisp-syntax for Lua.
cowpatch, a “copy-on-write” patch application tool that symlinks the unmodified files.
fread and fwrite demystified: stdio on UNIX V7
Futures of Distributions, by Joey Hess.
XORcise, verb.