Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27dec2007
ssh-xfer is a hackish but handy way of transferring files from remote hosts to your local computer.
bcvi: run vi over a ‘back-channel’, a great hack that could be adapted to remote URL opening in the local browser as well, for example.
opentracker is a open and free bittorrent tracker project. It aims for minimal resource usage and is intended to run at your wlan router. Very efficient implementation.
LIGHT READING 1500 cinematic explosions, by Elizabeth McAlpine. “The whitest frame from 1500 different cinematic explosions has been taken and compiled together to make a minute long white flickering movie the sound track has become an agitated micro sound due to the editing process.”
Don’t want you to touch me
Don’t try to help you’ll only make it worse
Don’t tell me it will be okay
Nothing’s gonna be okay anyway
It doesn’t matter im gonna turn my TV on
Cause everything looks beautiful on video
— The Expoxies, Everything Looks Beautiful on Video
24C3: Preview der Dampfmaschinen-Telegraphie, ultimate retrohacking.
Reading List, The following list was prepared by Alan Kay for his students and is presented here for those who want to learn more about the ideas and philosophies that influenced the creation of Squeak.
Gazest is a wiki based community engine. Why another wiki? Gazest tries to be better by not flattening the history of changes. This storage model is heavily inspired by distributed revision control systems like Git and Mercurial.
Smart Languages and Dumb Parsers, “Now I’m starting to wonder if a dumb parser is a necessary ingredient in a highly extensible language.” Examples are Lisp, Forth, Smalltalk.
Too many files: Reiser FS vs hashed paths, a benchmark.
eCache is an anonymous bank operating through interfaces in the Tor network. The bank issues cryptographic certificates, “Digital Bearer Certificates”, that can be exchanged among the banks users. The certificates can be bought and sold for real money through the bank. The owners and operators of the bank is unknown and the bank is said to operate outside the laws of any country.
Adventures in Stacking, “It’s the combinatorial architecture of the well-balanced stack.” Fantastic.
It’s aginst th’ law to eat, It’s aginst th’ law to drink
It’s aginst th’ law to worry, It’s aginst th’ law to think
It’s aginst th’ law to marry or to try to settle down
It’s aginst th’ law to ramble like a bum from town to town
— Woody Guthrie, Aginst Th’ Law
I completed reading, 104 books Matt Webb read this year. Wow.
Design your functions for partial application, a Haskell tip by Bryan O’Sullivan.
24C3 Wiki, I’ll follow the streams.
GitGui.dmg, this is a self-contained git-gui package for Mac OS X.