Eagle Scouts stand up to the Boy Scouts of America, “Now due to the recent decision by the National Council to uphold its policy on banning gays from participating or volunteering in Scouts, I can no longer support the Boy Scouts of America. I am returning my Eagle Scout rank and Order of the Arrow Ordeal sash.”

Automatic Quantification of Cache Side-Channels (PDF) in AES and RSA, by Boris Köpf, Laurent Mauborgne, and Martín Ochoa. Exciting results.

The HP-35, “A market research study, however, warned that the device would be too expensive and there was simply no market. That didn’t matter to Hewlett. He decided he wanted one and said ‘We’re going to go ahead anyway.’”

Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder, nice.

λ-Calculus: Then & Now, slides by Dana S. Scott.

Wanna Raspberry?, “initial NetBSD support was just committed […], and the Raspberry Pi can boot into multiuser now. […] USB and Ethernet are planned to be supported next.”

Blandroid is an Android ROM based off of AOSP that aims to be as stable as possible.

Es ist nicht okay, Facebook zu nutzen, Boris Kraut: “Jeder der FB nutzt ist Teil des Problems. Ihr seid das Problem.”

DIY Happy Hacking Keyboard alike, from Sun Type 6 USB keyboard and a jigsaw.

Minimal NES

Legalise Love: LGBT Rights Are Human Rights, global Google campaign.

Herzlich willkommen Tätervolk!, Felix Nicklas berichtet vom 10. Rock für Deutschland, dem größten Neonazi-Festival Deutschlands.

A day in the life of John Wiegley, transcript of an interview about Emacs by Sacha Chua.

What the WELL’s Rise and Fall Tell Us About Online Community, by Howard Rheingold.

Offline: a day with a little bit of Internet, by Paul Miller. “A shoddy connection is much worse than no connection, in my opinion.” So true.

NetBSD on Raspberry Pi boots into multi-user mode.

Rebuilding Git Integration Environment, some internals about how Git is developed.

Sirea, “Simply Reactive! Declarative” orchestration in Haskell using the Reactive Demand Programming (RDP) model. Sounds really cool.

Fortress Wrapping Up, “There is much work yet to be done in designing and implementing programming languages”.

WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF. Python, BSD-licensed.

All MVC All The Time, run a realistic Smalltalk-80 environment in Squeak. No sugar coating.

dypgen is a GLR parser generator for Objective Caml that is able to generate self-extensible parsers as well as extensible lexers for the parsers it produces.

Predicting Interpreters, by Darek Mihocka. Tricks on how to write effcient VMs in portable C.

Continuation Passing C

Arch Linux stage3’s vastly simplify installing from another Linux.

Variations on Go, the board game (I came up with the idea of continuous Go independently, but I’m not sure it was a topological Go).

Drawing your own money, JSG Boggs drew his very first bill in 1984 while sitting in a Chicago bar.

Perl secret operators and constants

Juliet’s grave is in a pub.

goobl pls

German court rules child’s religious circumcision can be a criminal offence

FREE PUSSY RIOT!, “At time of writing, the women have spent 117 days in jail, with the trial postponed for months longer.”

goomwwm is an X11 window manager implemented in C as a cleanroom software project. It manages windows in a minimal floating layout with normal mouse controls, while also providing flexible keyboard-driven controls for window switching, sizing, moving, tagging, and tiling. I like it.

The iRRAM is a C++ package for error-free real arithmetic based on the concept of a Real-RAM. Its capabilities range from ordinary arithmetic over trigonometric functions to linear algebra even with sparse matrices.

Decrypting SSL packet dumps, good to know.

An Applicative Control-Flow Graph Based on Huet’s Zipper (2005), by Norman Ramsey and João Dias.

“The old sow that eats her farrow”, 22 sobering depictions of Irish life.

Flash DROD: King Dugan’s Dungeon Lite, a great puzzle dungeon crawler. You’ll spent ages on this if you are up for a challenge. Recommended.

Bacon Ipsum, a meatier Lorem Ipsum generator. Yay.