Anarchaia

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

09jul2006

All you wanted to know about the HiPE compiler (but might have been afraid to ask), by K. Sagonas, M. Pettersson, R. Carlsson, P. Gustafsson, and T. Lindahl. HiPE is the High Performance Erlang compiler.

Abstracting Allocation: The New new Thing, by Nick Benton. “We introduce a Floyd-Hoare-style framework for specification and verification of machine code programs, based on relational parametricity (rather than unary predicates) and using both step-indexing and a novel form of separation structure.”

Rice balls by on the road to

The Least Surprised in “UnboundMyth’d”, Episode 3 of this cartoon set, which was shown at RailsConf 2006. Must see.

800 person Chicago IT firm ThoughtWorks going to shut its doors… if that’s true, ouch.

Bent Linux is a small simple distro, statically linked against uClibc.

bsdtalk is a podcast about the BSD family of free operating systems.

Testing your Rails views with Hpricot, useful.

Ruby is love.
Python is bondage.
I choose love. — Kirk Haines

Artificial Aesthetic Sense, “if a user draws an approximately straight line, his intention is to draw a truly straight line; if he draws an approximately parallel set of approximately straight and approximately equally long lines, he wants a set of truly straight, truly parallel and truly equally long lines.”

p^P is Pastie Straight from Vim, now we just need an Emacs version.

He do the song about the sweet lovin’ woman
He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life
— Dire Straits, Walk Of Life

Velcro Being Pulled Apart by Trazy Anderson

Stories about Mike and grep, awesome. ;-)

A minimalistic yet much more powerful bookmark manager, kicking del.icio.us’ and Firefox/you-name-it’s ass, Mauricio Fernandez tweaks on. Very neat.

The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife (NSFW), the first occurence of tentacle porn?

Japan SAQ (Seldom Asked Questions), everyone can learn something new here.