R.I.P. Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, sad.
HTML WG Working Drafts have been published
Tup is a file-based build system—it inputs a list of file changes and a directed acyclic graph (DAG), then processes the DAG to execute the appropriate commands required to update dependent files. An interesting alternative to make(1).
Social Navigation on the Social Web, Master thesis by Eivind J. Uggedal.
Delightfully typset in .
NCSA Mosaic 2.7 source code on Github.
Nethack, “When it started, I had no idea it would be the game. The game where I would actually get the Amulet of Yendor, bring it all the way up out of the dungeon to the Astral Plane, and present it to my god for the win. No cheating, no hacks, no savegame duplicates, not even any notes taken. Just one run.”
The Lo-Fi Manifesto, by Karl Strolley. “The time has come to reject expensive consumer and prosumer software that hinders the extensibility of digital discourse and limits digital production literacy to programs and file formats that are destined for disruptive upgrades or obsolescence.” (Ironically, better zap the stylesheet.)
Windows Phone 7 Series interface design, Edward Tufte comments.
iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader, a comparison.
Prolog for note-taking, WJW.
Post-quantum cryptography, “Imagine that it’s fifteen years from now. Somebody announces that he’s built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say ‘Oh my God, what do we do?’”
Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation.
colfm is a console, column-oriented file manager written by yours truly.
Freshman’s dream and Sophomore’s dream
Blosics 2, an incredibly annoying, frustrating and highly addictive Flash game.
indoorlandscaping, need a wall of grass?
Stukenborg: Letterpress Dice Print: Iowa6
A forward-looking logarithmic timeline
Don’t Fuck with the Copyright Jesus
It’s sinking in that Sun is gone, Chris Siebenmann: “much of the Unix environment I use every day comes ultimately from that era and Sun’s work. To see it all come to nothing in the end is, yes, a bit sad.”
What operating systems are the google guys using?, Russ Cox answers for the Plan 9 gang.
rsec, a Parsec clone for Ruby with a nice interface.
sunday and wednesday, a blog.
I’m a bigger Dylan fan than you, sung by Mark Sutton.
Quentin Tarantino Reference Manual
youshouldhaveseenthis.com and youshouldhaveALSOseenthis.com. Internet essentials.
TeX Line breaking algorithm in JavaScript, awesome and well-readable.
Top Crashers By URL for Firefox 3.6, mostly Flash.
Raw Meat is Aaron Swartz’s tumblelog.
Vimium is a Chrome extension that provides keyboard based navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor.
MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Very fast and of high quality.
Pino is Twitter client for Linux desktop. Best one I found so far, and fairly lightweight.
ShadyURL, don’t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
Internet for Peace, vote for the net as a candidate for the Nobel Price!
The TPUTH, Part I, Part II. More background on my new favorite news site. Refreshing.
Die Vorteile des freien Internets überwiegen seine Nachteile. Wer das
Internet für überwiegend schädlich hält, muss ein Menschenfeind sein.
— These 7, Christian Stöcker*
Hello Iceland, “Becoming a sanctuary for free communication and investigative journalism is something of greatness. This is what will make you an important force of change!”
The Resistance of Painting: On Abstraction, by Barry Schwabsky. “It would be easy to make the argument that abstraction has long since settled into its comfortable dotage—that it has become an art choking on good taste and mannered reticence.”
Labor of Division (Episode 1), advanced bit-math: multiply to divide.
Abstract Comics, can be fun too.
TPUTH, a Socially Generated Newspaper for Geeks, Designers and Venture Capitalists.
‘Facebook Login’, “it’s a fascinating glimpse at just how confused many people are about how web sites and browsers work.”
The Categorification of the Naturals, “this post is really about nothing more than doing arithmetic.”
Objective Modula-2, an Object Oriented Programming Language for Cocoa and GNUstep.
wtfjs collects things funny or unintuitive about the JavaScript language.
Manifest für den natürlichen Tod des Kunstwerks
Clang Successfully Self-Hosts! I can’t wait to replace GCC.
Richard Stallman speaking in Bern and protesting against Berne Convention, please think about this: “Works should only be covered by copyright if published with copyright notices.” Tough.
shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular web sites without user intervention.
NICHT JEDER BLICK IST NAH. KEIN DORF IST SPAET.
EIN SCHLOSS IM FREI UND JEDER BAUER IST FERN.
JEDER FREMDE IST FERN. EIN TAG IST SPAET.
JEDES HAUS IST DUNKEL. EIN AUGE IST TIEF.
— Theo Lutz und eine Z22, Stochastische Texte (1959) *
mulk is similar to wget and cURL, but it manages up to 50 (you can change that) simultaneous and parallel links. Useful for feed fetching!
Crypto Graphics, how DataMatrix coding works.
But melts just like a little girl, far too late, but don’t miss these puns by Paul Ford on Dylan’s christmas album.
I need to talk to you about computers, stevenf on the iPad and New World computing. Read this. Soon you can tell just about everyone “Here’s a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer”… if there still are any real computers around, that is.
Mark Pilgrim’s Setup, “I’ve had my current desktop for a little over two years. I want to continue using it for another 20. I mean that literally: this computer, this keyboard, this mouse, these three monitors. 20 years.”
CREOL: A formal framework for reflective component modelling the language is based on concurrent objects communicating by means of asynchronous method calls, and is formally defined with an operational semantics expressed in rewriting logic.
awf, the Amazingly Workable Formatter—a “nroff -man” or (subset) “nroff -ms” clone written entirely in (old) awk.
See that girl, barefootin’ along,
Whistlin’ and singin’, she’s a carryin’ on.
There’s laughing in her eyes, dancing in her feet,
She’s a neon-light diamond and she can live on the street.
— Grateful Dead, The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
In praise of git’s index, a great feature once you’ve grokked it.
Digerati colorscheme for vim and terminal. Wonderful.
emacs-nav, a small file browser pane for Emacs, even more lightweight than speedbar.
Miso font, light, clean, and suitable for @font-face.
Tetris Friends, a really good suite of Flash Tetris games, multi- and single-player. It’s got just the right feel; you won’t find a better in-browser experience on the net. Recommended!
Letters.app will be a lean and programmable OS X IMAP email client, with plugin and automation APIs, designed for developers and power users. A great effort.
Wie Werner Gruber einen Körperscanner austrickst, und er hat Thermit dabei!
Pack a Gun to Protect Valuables from Airline Theft or Loss, WJW.
He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear.
“they can’t let me die! the can’t let me die here!
I’ll cover myself with the mud and the earth.
I’ll cover myself! I know I’m not brave!
The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave.”
— Don McLean, The Grave*
Tour of the Incompatible Timesharing System (YouTube). The tour includes DDT’s help commands, Emacs, transparent file I/O, Maclisp and :peek.
Plan9 Acme Intro Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 on YouTube. A nice way to learn the Acme editor.
Hacking with Style: TrueType VT220 Font, whee.
A vi-centric family tree of editors, featuring Emacs, too.
Richard Stallman’s setup (wow, there have been lots of interviews added!)
Caleb Larsen’s A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter, a black box that places itself for sale on eBay.
LackRack, Ikea’s LACK sidetables nicely fit 19” racks. Genius.
Truck Bearing Kibble, a webcomic. A bit PBF-style.
300 & 65 Ampersands, an ampersand everyday!