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A stark reminder of how powerful, yet consumption oriented, today's computation paradigm is.

Rust API guidelines https://github.com/brson/rust-api-guidelines/blob/master/README.md contains an absolute wealth of Rust wisdom and best practices.

Build Yourself a Redux https://zapier.com/engineering/how-to-build-redux/ Working from first principles is really helpful for understanding APIs!

Bash, Perl and Make all use dynamic parsing! https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/22.html (syntax errors depend on *runtime* behaviour)

Fun deep dive on x86 boot latency using TSC at each step of the boot process: https://benyossef.com/benchmarking-boot-latency-on-x86/

Delightful paper on a multiplayer programming environment with ambiguous, example-based function definition: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06956

You can only sign up to Mechanical Turk in the US and India. This is presumably due to the legal complexity of paying users.

Blogged: Remacs Talk Transcript

Basic Block Versioning – My Best Result Yet https://pointersgonewild.com/2015/09/24/basic-block-versioning-my-best-result-yet/ (example where dynamic types give more precision and perf than static!)

Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions https://files.clr3.com/papers/2017_anyone.pdf (Suggests that user nudges > bans)

A Nanopass Framework for Commercial Compiler Development [Experience Report] https://ezyang.tumblr.com/post/62423869825/icfp-a-nanopass-framework-for-commercial-compiler (51 passes, 35 IRs, and great results!)

The Concept of a Meta-Font https://www.zigzaganimal.be/elements/the-concept-of-metafont.pdf (beautiful example of making the most of a medium when communicating)

Rust 1.17 is out! https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/04/27/Rust-1.17.html I'm impressed to see the stack trace format being reconsidered: PLs rarely reflect on this UI.

GitLab 9.1 is out! I'm regularly impressed with their ability to refine the notion of code collaboration.

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