Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23mar2007
Yet Another JavaScript Library Without Documentation, base2 by Dean Edwards.
Sudokuto is a game for 2 players. The game starts with an empty (or given) Sudoku-board where the players shall fill in the numbers. The winner is the persons who either manage to fill in a whole row, column or box, or inserts the last legal number. I came up with that, too.
A Tattoo for the Educated Man, that one’s cool.
There’s a crack in the smoky air
And the sound from the outside stair
Electricity fills my mind
Lost in time, that’s all I seem to need
Blind me, blind me
Blind me
— Eyes Adrift, Blind Me
The Smalltalk Archeology Archive, “On this page you will find information about various old implementations of Smalltalk with screenshots.”
Message-oriented (duck-typed) exceptions, nice trick by Mauricio Fernandez.
The Contemporary MCL Situation, from Kafka’s point of view: “Are the Lords of Lisp up there in the turrets of the castle looking down at them and laughing? Or is the castle actually abandoned, vacant, falling to ruin?”
No Ifs, Ands, or Buts: Uncovering the Simplicity of Conditionals , by Jonathan Edwards. Very interesting approach, and the new Subtext looks great.
Some Thoughts on Semantics, by Kurt Cagle. “[W]e walk around with an array of symbols in our head, each of which have a cloud of associations that are tied into those symbols, and those associations are not just other words but emotions, remembered sensations, memories comic or tragic.”
SqueakFest ‘07 at Columbia College Chicago, on August 1, 2 and 3.
I’ll never be your beast of burden
My back is broad but it’s a hurtin
All I want is for you to make love to me
— The Rolling Stones, Beast Of Burden
Wondermark 285: In which a Lot of Words elbow for Room, I so identify with this one.
Top ten things ten years of professional software development has taught me, a useful list by Andrés Taylor.