2521
Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation
The hugely ambitious 'Symbolic Processing Using RISC' project from UC Berkeley
2522
A better merge workflow with Jujutsu
A merge workflow for activating multiple branches simultaneously using Jujutsu, an alternative VCS to Git.
2523
Clojure's machine learning ecosystem
I had a really enlightening talk with Daniel Slutsky this week (who is an exceptional data scientist, software engineer, and community organizer I highly…
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2525
Electronic project kits: hands on with a vintage 160-in-1 (2016)
In this day and age with the bewildering availability of electronics readily available, deciding on a project to embark on can be…
2526
41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Jakob Nielsen has worked in user experience since 1983. Much changed, including moving from academia to practice but the mission remains!
2527
Quark Stars
Wow — evidence that very massive neutron stars may have cores made of deconfined quark matter! The idea of a ‘quark star’ is not new, but I didn’t know it was a serio…
2528
Godotcaml for Godot 4.2
A new way to make games
2529
Thinking in Actors – Challenging your software modelling to be simpler
Challenging your software modelling techniques to be simpler
2530
Accidentally writing a SAT solver
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
2531
SaberVM
This post announces SaberVM, an abstract machine for functional programs that guarantees safety, reliability, and portability.
2532
Lisp Query Notation (LQN)
Query language and terminal utility for transforming various data formats
2533
How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
Challenging the conventional narrative on Intel's smartphone miss
2534
The "End of Programming" will look a lot like programming (2023)
Nobody wants “temperamental and mysterious” products, so what will AI-integrated software development look like?
2535
TypedDicts are better than you think
TypedDict was introduced in PEP-589 which landed in Python 3.8. The primary use case was to create type annotations for dictionaries. For example,...
2536
The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23
NOTE: This is based on, but completely rewritten, from a Twitter post:https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1802645945642799423TL;DR: It makes Go feel too "functional" rather than being an unabashed imperative language.I recently saw a post on Twitter showing the upcoming Go iterator design for Go 1.23 (August 2024)…
2537
XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging
Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech
2538
Pie doesn't need to be original unless you claim it so
View this post in browser Your pie doesn't need to be original (unless you claim it so) Imagine you bake a delicious peach pie over the weekend, and you...
2539
In Praise of Buttons
The Nuberodesign Blog
2540
1989 Networking: NetWare 386
Thanks to the recent warez mega dump, another long lost gem has come to light: NetWare 386, also known as NetWare 3.0.
2541
Unlocking the Duron and Athlon using the pencil (2007)
Unlocking the Duron and Athlon Using the Pencil Introduction The best and most stable way to overclock your Athlon and Duron CPU is ...
2542
Take the Road Most Documented
How great would it be if the solution to most errors you face were in the first place you looked? That’s what the Arch Wiki has been for me: a massive wealth of information and troubleshooting resources to help me navigate the various configuration and installation issues I’ve encountered. Some people claim Arch Linux…
2543
My WordPress Slack Ban
A couple of days ago, I got banned from the WordPress community Slack. As this is about WordPress, I figure I should use my WordPress blog to talk about it. Everything that day revolved around a small…
2544
Ship faster by building design systems slower (2023)
Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
2545
Array Languages: R vs. APL (2023)
I’ve been learning at least one new programming language a month through Exercism which has been really fun and interesting. I frequently say that “every language you learn teaches you something about all the others you know” and with nearly a dozen under my belt so far I’m starting to worry about the combinatorics of…
2546
Derivative at a Discontinuity
Alok Singh's Blog
2547
An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad
A couple of years ago, I was in an incident that reduced the strength in my left shoulder. I’ve been waiting for an operation to restore the function to that shoulder, but we were warned the post-operative recovery period would be several months. So I started looking for keyboard options...
2548
Eight years of organizing tech meetups (2023)
Eight years of organizing tech meetups
2549
The story behind the NeuralRad organ and tumor segmentation cloud service
Late last month, I received a message.
2550
Arena-based parsers
The code is a bit "experimental" but it's available in the arena-fixes branch (make sure to enable --features=development if you run it from a Git repo).