29 Mar 2021
in no particular order - archive
Interesting bits elsewhere:
- Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers
 - Leaving Haskell behind — Infinite Negative Utility
 - Knuth: Ancient Babylonian Algorithms annotated/explained version.
 - Mastering Bloom Filters: Big Data Processing in Python
 
- What are the odds?
 - "Strange Dreams of Stranger Loops" by Will Byrd
 - Stop Writing Dead Programs, Jack Rusher
 - Von Neumann: "The Mathematician" - MacTutor History of Mathematics
 
- I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For? | WIRED
 - Demystifying Emacs's Window Manager - Mastering Emacs
 - Basic Category Theory
 - Stop Saying You’re Humbled
 
- On repl-driven programming
 - Mastering Eshell
 - Calling Emacs from XMonad – Tony Zorman
 - ¿Por qué uso GNU/Linux? y otras perlas similares
 
- Thomas Lord 1966-2022
 - Cargo Cult Science
 - Sabine Hossenfelder: Does the Past Still Exist?
 - Code review at the speed of email
 
- Dangit, Git!?!
 - Stop Interviewing With Leet Code
 - Start all of your commands with a comma
 - This copilot is stupid and wants to kill me
 
- Fermat's Library | Gabriel's Wedding Cake annotated/explained version.
 - Richard Bird, 1943-2022 | Patterns in Functional Programming
 - from apples to pears
 - How Many Hours a Day Should a Writer Write?
 
- The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician | The New Yorker
 - Oral History Interviews | Edward Witten | AIP (Not Even Wrong's summary)
 - Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs
 - Literate APIs with Emacs and Org Mode - kpassa.me
 
- Searching for Susy Thunder
 - Coders vs. Software Engineers and Computer Scientists
 - LibrePlanet 2022: Living in freedom with GNU Emacs | Protesilaos Stavrou
 - How To Build an Evil Compiler - Akila Welihinda
 
- Gerald Jay Sussman keynote and discussion - reClojure 2021
 - Journal of Functional Programming, did move to Open Access
 - Write plain text files - Derek Sivers
 - osm.el - OpenStreetMap viewer for Emacs
 
- Why the great books still speak for themselves, and for us | Aeon Essays
 - Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
 - Theoretical Computer Science for the Working Category Theorist (CUP)
 - Searching for Susy Thunder
 
- Firefox is the Only Alternative
 - The Principia Rewrite in Coq
 - ‘Shut up and calculate’ does a disservice to quantum mechanics | Aeon Essays
 - Sabine Hossenfelder: Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics?
 
- The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault
 - Between two Lisps
 - Sussman & Hanson - Adventures In Advanced Symbolic Programming (lectures)
 - Essentials of compilation, Indiana University
 
- Brown Interviews Protesilaos Stavrou
 - E.W. Dijkstra Archive: Why numbering should start at zero
 - RSS is Wonderful - Quakkels.com
 - Why I Still Use RSS - atthislink
 - Avy can do anything - Karthinks
 
- Fast and Elegant Clojure
 - Ruminations on cosmology and time (David Mumford)
 - scimax notebooks (video)
 - Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer
 
- Whither Tartaria? - Scott Alexander
 - A New Medium for Communicating Research on Programming Languages
 - The Universe of Discourse : Simplest example of Simpson's paradox
 - xkcd: Real Programmers
 
- Dieter Rams' design principles applied to software
 - Marlon James’s Tolkien Lecture
 - Marcin Borkowski: My experience with book writing
 - Galileo y la revuelta de los cretinos
 
- Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Physicist Despairs over Vacuum Energy
 - The Scientific Method-Richard Feynman - YouTube
 - Efficient tree traversals: reconciling parallelism and dense data representations
 - A Vim Guide For Experts
 
- The Hole Hawg of operating systems, Neal Stephenson
 - A Brief Intro to Monad Transformers
 - Colin Woodbury: contributing to emacs
 - The Best Regex Trick
 
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
 - Parse, don’t validate (and also Type Safety Back and Forth)
 - Helgoland and the captivating origins of quantum theory – Physics World
 - Past and Present of Haskell: Interview with Simon Peyton Jones
 
- The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature, P.A.M. Dirac
 - Beyond infinity? A lecture by Joel Feinstein
 - Fermat's Library | The development of Erlang annotated/explained version
 - Unix shell programming: the next 50 years (PDF)
 
- Why AI is Harder Than We Think, Melanie Mitchell
 - The Man of the Circular Ruins – Planet of Storms, a short life of Grothendieck
 - Taster Sessions - The University of Nottingham
 - Advanced functional programming summer school
 - Fireside Chat with Naval Ravikant and Neal Stephenson
 
- Hygienic macro technology, Clinger and Wand (2020)
 - Can continuation passing style code perform well? Joe Marshall
 - Would Alfred Hitchcock use Emacs? – Manuel Uberti
 - Last few orbits of a binary black hole merger: Face-on
 
- Functional Thursday #Special - Having an Effect by Oleg Kiselyov
 - And a companion: GENSHOU: Extensible Effects in Scheme
 - Five words that don’t mean what you think they do
 - The Evolution of a Haskell Programmer
 - Using index in the Emacs Info viewer
 
- What Do You Actually Agree To When You Accept All Cookies
 - Nine Inch Nails and David Bowie: Hurt - YouTube
 - How to properly use 3rd party Debian repository signing keys with apt
 - Wealth, shown to scale
 
- State of the Common Lisp ecosystem, 2020
 - Solving SICP – Various Thoughts
 - Spider legs build webs without the brain's help
 - Black holes might have hair
 
- Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science | Donald Knuth
 - Ode to Erlang
 - Emacs, org-mode and 100 books in a year
 - More things that changed in later editions of Snow White
 
- Yes, I did drop 90GB of my work to Public Domain
 - Functional Algorithm Design, Part 0, Part 1, Part 2
 - Using Emacs for College Assignments - DEV Community
 - Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine - Louis Pilfold
 - 25 Great Book Reviews From the Past 125 Years - The New York Times
 
- EmacsConf - 2020
 - Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor - Take on Rules
 - Making medieval manuscript transcription less painful with GNU Emacs - Joseph R. Johnson
 - Emacs in Emacs: A triumph for EXWM - Tech.ToryAnderson.com
 
- AMS Open Math Notes
 - BashPitfalls - Greg's Wiki
 - Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
 - Simulating Machines in Clojure
 
- Computer Search Settles 90-Year-Old Math Problem
 - What's New in Emacs 27.1? - Mastering Emacs
 - Why Elixir is the Programming Language You Should Learn in 2020
 - OCaml 4.11.0 released
 
- The Elflord and the Mayfly - Existential Comics
 - P.G. Wodehouse: wit and perfect prose to restore the soul
 - My new favorite utility: autojump - Christian Kastner
 - Mr Process's wild ride
 
- Polyglot Documentation with Org-mode - Oxford RSE
 - The Nokia N9 Alarm Clock – Nition
 - The Busy Beaver Frontier - Shtetl-Optimized
 - Tor 0day: Stopping Tor Connections - The Hacker Factor Blog
 
- PDP-11 LISP source (1975-77)
 - So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists
 - An "awesome" list for GNU Guile
 - How Gödel's incompleteness theorems work (Quanta Magazine)
 
- Shtetl-Optimized · My Enlightenment fanaticism
 - The Power of Prolog: Videos
 - Writing a VM for a Small Stack-Base Language in Pointless
 - Timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of
 - Emacs Org mode source blocks | jherrlin
 
- (Very) Basic Intro To Elliptic Curve Cryptography - Qvault
 - The Krakatoa Volcanic Eruption Was So Loud it Was Heard Round the World
 - Room 101: Bits of History, Words of Advice, Bracha on smalltalk
 - Why is Idris 2 so much faster than Idris 1? - Edwin Brady
 
- Student solves decades old Conway knot problem
 - (call/cc this-class)
 - Shtetl-Optimized: Quantum Computing Lecture Notes 2.0
 - Lenny Bruce - Lenny Bruce is out Again
 
- Everett's Theory of the Universal Wave Function, a tutorial
 - Legendary Paris bookshop reveals reading habits of illustrious clientele
 - Demo of Emacs Shell (ESHELL) | Protesilaos Stavrou
 - State of Elisp on Guile
 
- Life & Computing Science, a nice blog.
 - Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice | JoFP, Neil Mitchell, Andrey Mokhov and Simon Peyton Jones offer a systematic, and executable, framework for developing and comparing build systems.
 - Derek Parfit · Why anything? Why this? Part 1 | LRB 22 January 1998, i may agree or disagree with Parfit, but it's always a pleasure to follow his reasoning; here's part 2 of the essay.
 - Imre Lakatos and the philosophy of bad science | Aeon Essays, quite the character too.
 - Feynman's proof of the Maxwell equations | Fermat's Library
 - ‘The whole thing is a monstrosity!’ How a symmetry heretic sees the Universe
 
- Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
 - Beethoven 32
 - spellcard199 / geiser-kawa · GitLab
 - Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code - ELS2020
 
- Linear algebra done right, a nice book by Sheldon Axler (PDF available for a month); and do not miss the accompanying videos.
 - Some Tricks for List Manipulation · Donnacha Oisín Kidney, in Haskell, but then lists are everywhere.
 - Jane and the Compiler · Jane Street, a talk about how they got into the OCaml compiler.
 
- Pwning Tomorrow • Electronic Frontier Foundation, an anthology of speculative fiction.
 - Using org-mode for meeting minutes • egli.dev, a nice balance, in the simple but not simple camp.
 - joodland/bm: bm.el – Visual Bookmarks for GNU Emacs, nice way of moving around, on par in handiness with goto-chg.
 - How are Unix pipes implemented?, because i like to read good C code (sometimes).
 - unmonoqueteclea, pablo's blog.