Evolution of Emacs Lisp, by Stefan Monnier and Michael Sperber for HOPL IV!

MongoDB 4.2.6, Kyle Kingsbury: “Jepsen evaluated MongoDB version 4.2.6, and found that even at the strongest levels of read and write concern, it failed to offer snapshot isolation. Instead, Jepsen observed read skew, cyclic information flow, duplicate writes, and internal consistency violations.”

The Success and Failure of Ninja, by Evan Martin.

QED for Unix, UTF8/Unicode aware and made portable (no sbrk!).

bjoern, a fast and ultra-lightweight HTTP/1.1 WSGI Server.

ringbahn, a safe Rust interface to io_uring.

KVM host in a few lines of code, by Serge Zaitsev.

The Introductory Statistics Course: A Ptolemaic Curriculum? (2007), by George W. Cobb.

Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor’s die, by Ken Shirriff.

The 1-Bit Instrument, “The Fundamentals of 1-Bit Synthesis, Their Implementational Implications, and Instrumental Possibilities”. By Blake Troise.

What/Why people move from this to that

Rethinking conference talks for video calls, by Matt Webb.