Anarchaia

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

14sep2007

Squeak by Example can be ordered or downloaded as PDF now.

Arithmetic Game, great for exercising mental math or learning Trachtenberg Speed Math or Vedic maths.

P1000203 by miuenski

Reflections on Wikipedia, by David A. Black. Well, when I notice something weird, or lacking on a WP page, I of course head to the sources…

This time I’m asking for freedom,
Freedom from a world which you deny.
And you’ll give it to me now,
I’ll take it anyhow
When the night comes falling from the sky.
— Bob Dylan, When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky

FlatAtompub, by Ian Bicking. “A little while ago I decided to whip up a small Atompub server to get my head around the Atom Publishing Protocol. I called it FlatAtomPub because it was just storing stuff in flat files.”

An Introduction to Erlang, by Gregory Brown. “These days, the functional languages are all the rage. You see more and more hackers from the traditionally vanilla languages trying out things like Haskell or Scheme or OCaml. Breaking away from an imperative tradition forces us to think in a different way, which is always a good thing.” Well done intro.

It is not so much the suffering as the senselessness of it that is unendurable. — Nietzsche

Allium cyneum / アリウム　キネウム by poesie

Compositional type systems for stack-based low-level languages, by Ando Saabas and Tarmo Uustalu. “It is widely believed that low-level languages with jumps must be difficult to reason about by being inherently non-modular. We have recently argued that this in untrue and proposed a novel method for developing compositional natural semantics and Hoare logics for low-level languages and demonstrated its viability on the example of a simple low-level language with expressions.”