Great overview of Pyston, covering motivations, design and performance: https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/KevinModzelewski/pyston-talk-111015 (also contrasts with Pypy)
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A defence of Tumblr: https://theoutline.com/post/5811/why-tumblr-is-better-than-twitter-and-we-should-bring-it-back
The article contrasts Twitter with Tumblr and how Tumblr makes it harder for total strangers with diametrically opposed views to immediately respond to your content.
Programming in the debugger: https://willcrichton.net/notes/programming-in-the-debugger/
Discusses how notebooks enable incremental program writing, and contrasts with REPLs.
Makes some interesting points regarding persistence, although resumable exceptions have similar upsides too.