GitHub - TheBerkin/rant: Rant “ The all-purpose procedural text library https://github.com/TheBerkin/rant

PC Speaker To Eleven / Habr https://habr.com/en/post/439192/

Is The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein’s All-Time Greatest Work? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/is-the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress-heinleins-all-time-greatest-work/

Schneier on security: “There’s no good reason to trust blockchain technology” https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-technology/

GitHub - hrvach/fpg1: PDP-1 FPGA implementation in Verilog, with CRT, Teletype and Console. https://github.com/hrvach/fpg1

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

List of stories set in a future now past - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_set_in_a_future_now_past

Band name of the day: lonely black holes

Reading computer history reminds me that there was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when ‘person does thing with computer’ was a standard slow-news-day template item instead of a business plan

Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?

Can a philosopher explain reality and make-believe to a child? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/can-a-philosopher-explain-reality-and-make-believe-to-a-child

Editions https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-blitzscaling-growth/

Band name of the day: user illusion

Parser types | rain-1.github.io https://rain-1.github.io/scheme-parse

256 Kilobytes | Biography of Terry A. Davis - The greatest programmer to ever live. https://www.256kilobytes.com/index.php/content/show/1939/biography-of-terry-a-davis-the-greatest-programmer-to-ever-live

GitHub - combinatorylogic/mbase: Metaprogramming framework for .net https://github.com/combinatorylogic/mbase

Was Umineko influenced by The Colonel’s Bequest?

boom mike appears in the shot David Lynch: OK, so the boom mike the the protagonist of this movie now

Periodic reminder that the links I post here also get collected at http://www.lord-enki.net/links.html (including stuff that didn’t post because title fetching failed)

Programming Z3 https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html

If Software Is Funded from a Public Source, Its Code Should Be Open Source | Linux Journal https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/if-software-funded-public-source-its-code-should-be-open-source

Capitalism’s New Clothes | Evgeny Morozov https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov

Con-Culture Experts On the History and Future of Scamming - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/con-culture-experts-on-the-history-and-future-of-scamming

Tying Architecture Together: How Metal Star Bolts Bolster Old Brick Buildings - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/tying-architecture-together-how-metal-star-bolts-bolster-old-brick-buildings/

Band name of the day: covington doom

Why isn’t there a King Crimson / HP Lovecraft cover band called King Saffron yet?

The (Almost) Secret Algorithm Researchers Used to Break Thousands of RSA Keys – Algorithm Soup https://algorithmsoup.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/breaking-an-unbreakable-code-part-1-the-hack/

opsec and beauty - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiRGEkFnRSvYf6gV8cncih_8W1sAoEBTH

Can’t Unsee https://cantunsee.space/

Atlas of Endangered Alphabets – Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/

The Orthogonality Thesis & Ontological Crises http://humaniterations.net/2016/05/16/the-orthogonality-thesis-ontological-crises/

In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-the-word-was-embodied

’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/

The Decline of Historical Thinking | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-decline-of-historical-thinking

Band name of the day: love scales

Band name of the day: his smile was the nightmare in my back pocket

Declarative Programming Pros And Cons | Toptal https://www.toptal.com/software/declarative-programming

GitHub - p-e-w/ternimal: Simulate a lifeform in the terminal https://github.com/p-e-w/ternimal

About http://previous.alternative-system.com/

Smalltalk performance and Moore’s Law https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00185.html

Groundhog Day “ An Inescapable Premise - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSQZvAKfwvA

Roleplay, Interplay, Powerplay https://logicmag.io/06-roleplay-interplay-powerplay/

City Planning Heaven Sent - e-flux Architecture - e-flux https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248075/city-planning-heaven-sent/

The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/29/the-mysterious-discipline-of-narratologists/

What a brandless brand is selling you | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6698/brandless-brands-instagram-ads-capitalism

CBC Arts https://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086

Knife Fights, Lockpicking, and Other Things I’ve Done to Become a Better Writer | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/01/31/knife-fights-lockpicking-and-other-things-ive-done-to-become-a-better-writer/

Band name of the day: aryepiglottic folds five

Band name of the day: supraglottal laryngeal constriction

Roomful of Teeth Is Revolutionizing Choral Music | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/11/roomful-of-teeth-is-revolutionizing-choral-music