Book idea (high effort, dunno if I’ll do it): a survey of alternative computing systems in the style of Seven Languages in Seven Weeks. What should I include other than smalltalk, colorforth, oberon, templeos, and menuet?
The Technicolor Nightmares of Suspiria - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrcqxqsJSD4
The Servers Are Burning https://logicmag.io/05-the-servers-are-burning/
GitHub - dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated: measuring memory usage of popular webapps https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated
Dear Ranma, maybe if you have sudden traumatic gender transformations when wet don’t travel primarily by running along the top of a fence by a riverbank.
Band name of the day: ownership of the dead
QOTD: ‘The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.’ (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)
QOTD: ‘I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.’
Who Are the Forgotten Greats of Science Fiction? | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2018/09/04/who-are-the-forgotten-greats-of-science-fiction/
It’s not that anonymity produces bad behavior, but that the absence of the ability to ignore or remove bad actors makes it difficult to prevent bad behavior, and persistent names assigned to persistent identities provides a convenient handle for dealing with individual bad actors.
The Coral Project Notes https://frnsys.com/coral/
Le Corbusier’s Special Measuring Tape Is Making a Comeback - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/le-corbusiers-modulor-rule
Software Rot and Classes of Rot Resistance · InductiveComputerScience/progsbase Wiki · GitHub https://github.com/InductiveComputerScience/progsbase/wiki/Software-Rot-and-Classes-of-Rot-Resistance
Cowards and Trolls Log Off: Dril’s New Book Is Awesome - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmqew/dril-new-book-tweets-interview
Researchers show Alexa “skill squatting” could hijack voice commands | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/08/researchers-show-alexa-skill-squatting-could-hijack-voice-commands/
Post-apocalyptic Weaving on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/258513340
Valve: ‘It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people
Deep Laziness https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/04/06/deep-laziness/
Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html
Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html
GitHub - ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings: Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python https://github.com/ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings
The Surreal Joys Of The Beautiful Book Of Exquisite Corpses / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/the-surreal-joys-of-the-beauti.html
This book is pretty good but Alex Wright keeps calling things like codex formats & indices ‘literary hypertext’. No, that’s just text. Yes, I get that hypertext is more text than text; that’s why it’s hyper.
Kabbalah | Pushing Ahead of the Dame https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/tag/kabbalah/
Band name of the day: scavenger omnivore
Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock
Hot take: the most annoying thing about anti-spoiler behavior is that it protects the kind of bad, shallow media that spoilers actually affect from serious criticism until they have already been consumed.
The Color of Pomegranates: A Failed Video Essay - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXjUf05HVE
The Art of Good Ecchi - How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6wit4Epeo
Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html
GitHub - flipcoder/textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat
Disk Compressor History: A Microsoft Antitrust Prelude https://tedium.co/2018/09/04/disk-compression-stacker-doublespace-history/
All It Takes to Create a Ghost Is a Good Story - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/true-ghost-stories-portland-oregon
Decoding the Unusual Shape of the Nepali Flag - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nepal-flag-shape
The Thunder Child: Vertlieb’s Views: Dracula in the 1970s: Prints of Darkness http://thethunderchild.com/VertliebsViews/Dracua-PrintsofDarkness.html
Bad idea of the day: a movie musical called Greece, for extra confusion
a stationary bicycle for the mind. (stationery?)
a bicycle for the mind / tanks for the memories
mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer
Alejandro Jodorowsky - The Mystic Theatre - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZsAP8VyoO4
Band name of the day: massive bubble phenomenon
Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new. -… https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/silicon-valleys-attempts-to-self-police-are-anti-democratic-theyre-also-not-new/2018/08/17/cd44fb22-9b1d-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html
#FolkloreAgainstFascism - The Daily Grail https://www.dailygrail.com/2018/08/folkloreagainstfascism/
♥️ danhon ♥️: “Jurassic Park Common User Interface 1.1b24 https:…” - mastodon.cloud https://mastodon.cloud/@Danhon/100618546995610700
OK, so the next 22 people who click on this link get my book: https://www.amazon.com/ga/p/9035fb092fa86187?ref_=pe_1771210_134854370#ln-en (The two previous giveaways only gave out one book, which is stupid.)
The Paradox of Karl Popper - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-paradox-of-karl-popper/
Band name of the day: feathered death garlands