I don't preserve browser tabs between sessions. It's a surprisingly helpful way of staying on whatever side project you planned to play with.
miniblog.
A really nifty Emacs project: a gnus backend for reading HN!
Tech in 2011 and today doesn't look like a bubble, and startups failing are less likely to affect retail investors:
GNU Guix bootstraps itself using a mutual self-hosting scheme interpreter and C compiler!
Remarkable research exploring the design of a distributed VPN using zero knowledge proofs to allow nodes to choose permitted traffic whilst preserving privacy:
Businesses are increasingly choosing individual apps rather than buying entire suites from the same vendor: https://capiche.com/p/enterprise-software-is-dead
(I'm not convinced it's that easy to switch though: established tools tend to have lots of integrations set up.)
Bitcoin might be the biggest currency by market cap, but apparently not by volume:
Excellent deep dive into how Python started, the growth and structure of the community, and where it's going: https://www.zdnet.com/article/python-is-eating-the-world-how-one-developers-side-project-became-the-hottest-programming-language-on-the-planet/
Steampunk as a reaction to black box consumer electronics with no user serviceable parts: https://modus.medium.com/what-ever-happened-to-steampunk-4ac936905165
Cute demonstration of implementing generators in terms of delimited continuations: https://defn.io/2019/09/05/racket-generators/
It might be Scheme, but the examples have a lot of syntax! parameterize, let loop, variadic functions, call-with-continuation-prompt (with 2 or 3 args).
A new 16-bit floating point format for machine learning! https://hub.packtpub.com/why-intel-is-betting-on-bfloat16-to-be-a-game-changer-for-deep-learning-training-hint-range-trumps-precision/
It increases range at the expense of precision, and often allows 16-bit computation (smaller, faster hardware) to replace 32-bit ML logic.
I'm amazed to learn that Tesla normally disables parts of the battery on cheap models, but was able to remotely enable the full battery during hurricane Dorian!
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/09/12/how-the-world-will-change-as-computers-spread-into-everyday-objects
A car is turning into a computer with wheels, and that computer is sometimes a thin client.
Designing interfaces that take full advantage of the capabilities of the human body:
Remarkable history of building radios during the second world war in prisoner of war camps. Very few premade components and all schematics were from memory!
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