Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
21jan2006
Why Rails?, Edd Dumbill praises Ruby: “For developers who consider themselves as poets and artists too, I can’t think of a better language.”
The Ruby vs. Lisp Debate by Josh Carter. To defend Lisp, this totally misses the point that Lisp is more powerful, language-wise. (Whether or not this is useful for web applications remains open…)
Ben Fry’s new site actually exists since September, but I only noticed that right now.
Hamster, Snake Best Friends at Tokyo Zoo, this is sooo cuuuuute.
All the world is falling, falling
All the blue
From me and you
Tear drops falling to the ground
Tear drops
— Antony And The Johnsons, Rapture
Four eyes mind-fucking pic, “mind-fuck” is the correct term indeed.
Jean-Remy von Matt ist beleidigt, weil wir alle nicht Deutschland sein wollen.
I have learned in over 50 years of living that when someone does something evil, it’s pretty likely they know what they’re doing. — Dave Winer
Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into executable C, C++, Objective-C, or D code. Useful.
A Nominal Theory of Objects with Dependent Types by Martin Odersky, Vincent Cremet, Christine Röockl and Matthias Zenger.
Tom Judd’s Everyday, a wonderful book of daily scribbles.
Mona Lisa, now we know why she grins. Or how, rather.
Not-Safe-For-Work Reddit, finally a useful social site. ;-) PNSFW.
Ecosystems, Avi Bryant on the conflict of developing for end-users or consultants.
Aurélie so klappt das nie
Du erwartest viel zu viel
Die Deutschen flirten sehr subtil
— Wir sind Helden, Aurélie
Rebol—Dialects, Spreadsheets on LtU, oh how I wish someone would write a reasonably complete open-source clone of Rebol (say, enough to run Vanilla), so this ghost could come to an end.
Stahl House, Case Study House No. 22, this one is soo awesome.