Thoughtful post about just how much harder is to write code as soon as you transition from text to graphics, and how that influences our default programming habits: https://prog21.dadgum.com/159.html
miniblog.
An opinionated, unofficial alternative to https://crates.io/: https://crates.rs/
I like the understated design, and having multiple websites listing the packages available is a great sign of a healthy ecosystem!
Running the typescript compiler *inside* BigQuery, and building a dataset of one million typescript files to see how people use the language!
https://medium.com/@urish/yes-i-compiled-1-000-000-typescript-files-in-under-40-seconds-this-is-how-6429a665999c
Worthwhile article on how the value of developers on your platform depends on the size of your userbase: https://stratechery.com/2018/the-cost-of-developers/
More users means you don't need to work as hard to acquire devs.
Also discusses why MS benefits from buying GitHub.
Scuttlebot is a P2P replicating datastore designed to facilitate decentralised applications: https://scuttlebot.io/
The list of available apps is impressive for a young project: https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-handbook/blob/master/applications.md
The apps remind me of IPFS' ambitions, although the protocol is different.
Excellent article on giving worthwhile criticisms, and getting value from criticisms from others: https://chappellellison.com/giving-and-taking-criticism/
Glitch is exploring a git alternative where edits are continuously committed, then you have a slider that lets you move between historical states. Less powerful, but much more approachable!
https://medium.com/glitch/reinventing-version-control-with-glitch-rewind-914c350da442
Looks like it was difficult for GitHub to maintain independence: it wasn't profitable for much of 2016:
There's a great playlist on YouTube that shows the highlights of Doug Engelbart's amazing tech demo from 1968: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76DBC8D6718B8FD3
It's an integrated dev environment, hypertext system, structured text, and even allows multiuser collaboration!
Really interesting post on optimising the Rust compiler: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2018/06/05/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-some-more-in-2018/
I love that the author comments that he still finds lifetimes somewhat scary. You can even work on the compiler without needing to master advanced Rust techniques!
I worry about the traditional computing term 'augmented human intellect'. If I wear a watch, I'm an augmented human: I can track time more accurately than I could without technology!
What's a better goal for tech regarding how it can help us achieve things?
I'm curious to see what impact Microsoft's purchase of GitHub has on the long term prospects of Atom.
Atom is a lovely editor pushing the boundaries of web tech amd editor design in several areas, but its usecase is similar to VS Code. Would MS want to fund three editor teams?
These days I struggle to distinguish between machines using Xorg and those using Wayland. I think that's a testament to the compatibility of Wayland and the efforts put in by the Qt/Gtk folks.
Some interesting insights on early Emacs in these annotated emails from Guy L Steele: https://gist.github.com/lispm/8c6783be2f5a3d41b7592ba3b2c453ea
The name was picked in 1976, and a number of concepts that still exist today were created! It mentions the kill ring, yanking, and even the same keybindings for them!
A thoughtful post on the limitations on deep learning: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00631.pdf
I think the author's criticisms of deep learning's coverage in the media are fair, and that we should consider it another tool in the toolbox. Comparing it with AGI seems like a very high bar though.
The more I play with LambdaMoo, the more fascinated I am with collaborative programming. There is no separation between chatting and programming! It's an amazing way to learn.
A really fun function name in Common Lisp: the. It returns the value passed in, as well as checking the type. https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_the.htm#the
It reads rather nicely: (the integer foo).
Good, candid assessment of the state-of-the-art in self-driving cars, and the challenges ahead: https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-challenges/
Woah, Microsoft is discussing acquiring GitHub: https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-has-been-talking-to-github-about-possible-acquisition-report/
Also mentioned in that LWN article: https://lwn.net/Articles/754779/
https://bugs.python.org/ is still on Python 2!
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