SELinux is beyond saving at this point https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SELinuxBeyondSaving (it's widely used on Android but little beyond that)
miniblog.
Mother of All Multics Emacs papers https://www.multicians.org/mepap.html (long, discusses the first Emacsen with the discovery of features used today!)
The Glorious Horror of TECO https://goodmath.scientopia.org/2010/11/30/the-glorious-horror-of-teco/ (the forerunner of Emacs!)
Is there a relationship between f-expressions and lazy execution? Traditional macros seem analogous to eager execution.
How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds — from a Magician and Google’s Design Ethicist https://medium.com/swlh/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3 (brilliant post on ethical UX)
Interested in playing with Emacs' new support for modules? There are some great example projects now available:
In addition to MOOCs being incredible content for free, they're often run by top people. E.g. there's even a Scala MOOC by Martin Odersky!
Contributing to projects whose webpages are static content on GitHub is wonderful. It's obvious how to contribute.
The Emacs stack exchange now has its own theme!
With touch screens, we need not replicate qwerty forever. What would a touch native programming env look like? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11223697
Programming the ENIAC: an example of why computer history is hard https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/programming-the-eniac-an-example-of-why-computer-history-is-hard/ (depends where you draw the line on 'computer'!)
I love using dash.el https://github.com/magnars/dash.el for throwing together new elisp projects. When you need its helpers, you *really* need them.
How much does Rust monomorphise common trait methods in larger projects? In Servo, rather a lot!
Improving Lisp UX One Form at a Time: https://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2016/05/improving-lisp-ux-one-form-at-time.html -- always interesting to see new takes on lisp's UX.
Awesome project of the day: implementing a Unix OS in the browser: https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix (something about Unix really encourages porting)
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