Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

21jul2008

Jason Kottke solves Twitter’s scaling issues, and I’m not kidding. Who builds the first fetch-updates.txt-of-all-my-friends client?

Java Is Too Academic, pretty much.

snoozemail, by Toby Segaran. “Send or forward email to x@snoozemail.com, e.g. 3@snoozemail.com and the email will come back to you x days later.”

Stauffenberg memorial Berlin by julchen_berlin

Clue is an ANSI C compiler (C89, some C99) that targets high-level languages such as Lua, Javascript or Perl. It supports the entire C language, including pointer arithmetic, and can be used to run arbitrary pure-C programs. Cool!

Seasons may change
and they hold wild flowers,
raising their face to the sun.
All that are born from our soft rainshowers
are wild flowers.
— All About Eve, Wild Flowers

Itching my programming nerve, Joe Armstrong on Scalaris and reimplementing Wikipedia.

Baby’s First Internet, by Kevin Fanning and Kean Soo. Essential reading!

The Berlin Requiem at Everything2.

And buddha sits on my shelf shooting up Edgar Allan Poe
And I’ll dream in forbidden colours just like Vincent van Gogh
I don’t need no suit of armour
I don’t need no sword and shield
I don’t need no immortality
I don’t need no elysian fields
— The Mission, From One Jesus To Another

Wall where Stauffenberg was shot by phantomsangel_erik

Nginx Upload Module, does all the multipart stuff before you hit the app. (Lacks file size limitation, though.)

Jazzers and Programmers, by Nick Sieger. A summary of his RubyFringe talk.

Partial vectorisation of Haskell programs, by Manuel M. T. Chakravarty, Roman Leshchinskiy, Simon Peyton Jones, and Gabriele Keller. “In this paper, we present an approach to partial vectorisation that selectively vectorises sub-expressions and data types, and also, enables linking vectorised with unvectorised modules.”

sadtrombone.com, as a counterpart to instantrimshot.com.