How I Got Smart, by Amy Schneider, 40 time Jeopardy! Champion.

29-year-old Conway conjecture settled, “[I]s there a Godlike still-Life, one that can only have existed for all time?”

What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified?, good answer by Terry Lambert from the Apple Core OS Kernel Team.

Makam is a metalanguage that eases implementation of languages with rich type systems, supporting concise and modular language definitions, aimed at allowing rapid prototyping and experimentation with new programming language research ideas. By Antonis Stampoulis.

mir, a lightweight JIT compiler based on MIR (Medium Internal Representation). By Vladimir Makarov.

The Art of Prolog (1994), book by Leon S. Sterling and Ehud Y. Shapiro. (Freely downloadable under Open Access.)

Parsing Decimals 4 times faster in Rust.

Literature Clock

Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows, by Raymond Chen.

Whimsy: Put That Test Down! You don’t know where it’s been (YouTube), short talk by Michael Dalessio at RubyConf 2021.

Intercats is a seminar series on the mathematics of interacting systems, their composition, and their behaviour.

Jacinda is a functional, expression-oriented data processing language, complementing AWK.

Golfing a NES emulator in JS, by Maxime Euziere.

GNU Parallel’s 20th birthday

Database of Ring Theory

Klein. Aus dem Nachlass des Typografen Jan Tschichold. A digital exhibition.

Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword, by Roddy Howland Jackson.

The Computer as Master Mind (PDF, 1976), by Donald E. Knuth. How to solve Master Mind within five moves or less.

Absurdle, an adversarial Wordle by qntm.

Letterle

SAGE and a glimpse of group computing from before the PC, by Matt Webb.

Sowhat is a markup language for organizing a collection of short note records.

Original Forth for IBM 1130, written by Charles Moore in 1968.

Software Folklore, collected by Andreas Zwinkau.

How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief, by Jeffrey Arlo Brown.

Ruining the fun of Wordle with strategy, by Paul Battley.

PhD 2048, move the bricks to complete your PhD.