Dennis Ritchie passed away, RIP DMR. Thanks to Unix and C, he never shall be forgotten.
A language that doesn’t have everything is actually easier to program in
than some that do.
— Dennis M. Ritchie
Software Foundations, by Benjamin C. Pierce et al. Sounds like an awesome book: “It develop basic concepts of functional programming, logic, operational semantics, lambda-calculus, and static type systems, using the Coq proof assistant.”
Jewish Problems, collected by Tanya Khovanova and Alexey Radul. “This is a special collection of problems that were given to select applicants during oral entrance exams to the math department of Moscow State University. These problems were designed to prevent Jews and other undesirables from getting a passing grade.”
sheerdns is a master DNS server whose zone records are stored on a One-Record-Per-File bases. Refreshingly simple.
Xpra is ‘screen for X’, updated revision with many enhancements.
Deep C (and C++) (PDF), by Olve Maudal and Jon Jagger. Good talk.
Before Netscape: the forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s, I knew only half of them.
R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888–2011, “Major manufacturers have ceased production of new motion picture film cameras; cinema as we once knew it is dead.”
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera, neato.