Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01aug2007
Net::SSH revisited, Jamis Buck on dependency injection. “I’m rewriting Net::SSH, taking advantage of many of the best-practices I’ve learned in the intervening years. It’s a lot slimmer now. Faster. Cleaner. Better.”
Sphincter uses Dmytro Shteflyuk’s sphinx Ruby API and automatic configuration to make totally rad ActiveRecord searching. The prize for the worst-named Ruby project goes to Eric Hodel.
Stuff, essay by Paul Graham.
Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
where every night is just the same you leave me lonely
will I see you tonight on a downtown train
all of my dreams just fall like rain
all upon a downtown train
— Tom Waits, Downtown Train
Playing with Arrows, a whirlwind tour of Control.Arrow. Somehow this is useful stuff.
Pixels Are The New Pies, Anil Dash: “An interesting infographic trend: Square blocks of color are now being used to represent percentage-based statistics instead of the traditional pie charts.” Makes influencing the reader a lot easier, IMO.
Object Selection in OpenGL, thanks to GL_SELECT. Learn something new everyday.
How Dedekind Screwed Up a Hundred Years of Mathematics, by Russell O’Connor.
A Taste of Haskell, A Taste of C, chromatic sounds hooked.
cat predicts deaths, web folk LOL.
Monadic Reflection in Haskell (PDF), slides by Andrzej Filinski.
Atlantic City Method For Computing Pi, here’s the slowest, most inefficient method known for computing pi. It really works, though!
Transfinite induction is an extension of mathematical induction to well-ordered sets, for instance to sets of ordinals or cardinals.
List of statements undecidable in ZFC, from Wikipedia.
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