What Happens Next Will Amaze You, slides by Maciej Cegłowski.

Statistics for Hackers, by Jake VanderPlas. “If you can write a for-loop, you can do statistics.”

agrep, an approximate grep. Didn’t know this was relicensed under ISC.

LALRPOP, a LR(1) parser generator for Rust. Does not use parsing tables, quite interesting.

eslisp, an S-expression syntax for ECMAScript/JavaScript, with Lisp-like hygienic macros. Minimal core, maximally customisable.

saldl, a multi-platform command-line downloader optimized for speed and early preview, based on libcurl.

The L Programming Language (PDF, 2007), or: Tcl for C Programmers. By Oscar Bonilla, Tim Daly, Jr., and Larry McVoy.

Barrette Manifesto, by Julia Serano.

Clickbait Poetry

The Erdős discrepancy problem, proved by Terence Tao and Polymath5?

A Strong Mode for JavaScript, proposal by Andreas Rossberg.

A Pint-sized Earley Parser in JavaScript, by Joshua Grams.

Programming Interactive Worlds with Linear Logic, Chris Martens’ Ph.D. Thesis.

Discrete Analysis, an arXiv overlay journal: “rather than publishing, or even electronically hosting, papers, it will consist of a list of links to arXiv preprints.” Great news!

The Night They Drove the Price of Electricity Down “Wind power was so plentiful in Texas that producers sold it at a negative price. What?”

Dressing Solaris, notes from the costume designer of the greatest ever Soviet sci-fi movie.

Every Single Movie That Jimmy Carter Watched at the White House

Adrian Frutiger, 1928–2015

20 Years of OCaml

Vega is a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs.

π-Base, a community database of topological examples with automated deduction and powerful search.

Ohm is a library and domain-specific language for parsing and pattern matching. Like its older sibling OMeta, Ohm supports object-oriented grammar extension and allows pattern matching on structured data as well as strings.

GN is a meta-build system that generates NinjaBuild files, developed for Chromium. Standalone usage is possible, too.

Kernel bypass for networking. Good overview of available techniques.

Computer Science Courses that Don’t Exist, But Should

SABBAT, a twine. NSFW.

The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy - my worst job ever, by Juho Snellman. Awesome story.

A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra, by Victor Shoup. 2nd Edition. Free PDF available.

Freer Monads, More Extensible Effects (PDF), by Oleg Kiselyov and Hiromi Ishii. “We present a rational reconstruction of extensible effects, the recently proposed alternative to monad transformers, as the confluence of efforts to make effectful computations compose.”

QED Text Editor (PDF, 1970). By D. M. Ritchie and K. L. Thompson. Quite good feature set!

Conjecture is a new approach to property based testing. Sounds very promising!

Biggest image in the smallest space, “Here is a bzip2 file of 420 bytes that uncompresses to a PNG image of 6,132,534 bytes (5.8 MB) and 225,000 × 225,000 pixels (50.625 gigapixels), which, if represented as a pixel buffer of 3 bytes per pixel, takes about 141.4 GB.”

Cooper Hewitt: The Typeface, by Chester Jenkins.

Time Cube is gone, Thyme Cube is still alive.

World Airports Voronoi