Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20nov2006
Open Classes, Open Companies, Nathaniel Talbott’s RubyConf 2006 talk.
Accessing the non-perishable information on eigenclass.org, let me crash Mauricio Fernandez’ eternal self-critisism by saying that eigenclass.org is still the best technical Ruby blog around. (Even if it’s only from a blog with “link[s] to news story plus worthless comment”.)
Rich languages vs. minimal languages, Karsten Wagner says minimalism needs to be scrutinized in language design. My position (at the moment) is the core-language way of design, to which everything can be desugared.
I’m not blind
I can see it coming
Looks like lightning
In my child’s eye
— Pearl Jam, Army Reserve
Grouse Grep is a program that searches for a target string or regular expression pattern in one or more files. It features stunning performance for many common search cases, often outstripping GNU Grep or any other grep for speed. WJW.
The Space Cube is the world’s smallest personal computer. The unbelievably minuscule cube (2 x 2 x 2.2 inch case) packs 300 MHz CPU and 64 MB of SDRAM. Want one.
Doing your Propositional Logic homework with Lisp, a whirlwind tour of Lisp.
The Relics of Mu, “It seems that most every culture has a legend of a great society, ripe with wealth and wisdom, which is lost to the sea.” Never heard of “Yonaguni Monuments”.
In the beginning: scientists get ready to hunt for God particle, a.k.a. the Higgs boson.
Functional Reactive Programming, Continued, by Henrik Nilsson, Antony Courtney, and John Peterson. “AFRP is a powerful synchronous dataflow programming language with hybrid modeling capabilities, combining advanced synchronous dataflow features with the higher-order lazy functional abstractions of Haskell.”
nxhtml-mode is a major mode for editing XHTML files, based on nxml-mode.
Some suggestions for XProc, by Rick Jelliffe. Wouldn’t an Arrow-based XML transformation system be nice?
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain
— Bob Dylan, Masters Of War
Mounting a Remote Filesystem with sshfs, Jeremy Jones explains how to.
International Lisp Conference 2007, registration is open.
One-day Rails intro workshop in Toronto, December 15, by David A. Black.
How to build yourself a One Atmosphere Plasmoid, using your microwave!
To Catch a Thief, I kind of like the idea of an all-girl gang of teenage apartment burglars.