January 2012
1 post
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
2 posts
David Swenson's electrostatic "invisible wall" →
I really want to believe this is real.
Computer Science 101 →
It is great that Stanford is putting these courses online. There is a dearth of good, solid, fundamental, publicly available material for people who want to get into making software.
October 2011
7 posts
Steve Jobs Book Excerpt: Why he wore the Black... →
How much you want to bet some of these shirts will be auctioned off?
“If you care about something, you should make it with your own hands as much as...”
– Ian Collins @ his wedding. For some reason this really struck a chord with me.
Minecraft - Pocket Edition - Android Market →
Yeah, it is here and it works!
Pronk like you mean it →
Bos is a giant. Consume his words.
gregory david collins: Slides from CUFP 2011: Snap... →
Even though it’s just slides, it’s a nice high-level introduction to Snap. These kinds of docs are in short supply.
September 2011
4 posts
Ten surprises from numerical linear algebra →
A nice post by John Cook.
A patched version of Caball-Install for GHC 7.2.1 →
Are you either excited about GHC 7.2.1 or do you require it because you upgraded to Mac OSX Lion (where 7.0.* is plagued by linker errors)? If so, then you might be interested in the procedure outlined in this gist. GHC builds fine even with the broken 7.0.* as a base, but cabal-install has been recalcitrant.
Since the process of patching and updating is a little fiddly, I’ve taken the...
August 2011
10 posts
We Know the Google NexusOne Can Survive a Hard... →
Dear Satellite Contractors, the jig is up. And let’s not kid ourselves, anyone who’s worked in the space industry knew there was a perpetual heist going on.
GenTiradentes/tinyvm at v1.0 - GitHub →
Awesome.
“In keeping with the notion of “last-place aversion”, the people who were a spot...”
– Economics focus: Don’t look down | The Economist
Nick Farina - An iOS Developer Takes on Android →
After that bitch-fest of an iOS-new-to-android-boy-are-things-different screed we saw last week, it’s nice to see someone actually take an in-depth approach and compare things and come up with a reasonable set of conclusions.
July 2011
10 posts
WatchA real gem of a song from one of @3n’s dubstep playlists on Rdio.
A Neighborhood of Infinity: Evaluating cellular... →
This is the first comonads tutorial that left me feeling like I had a better grasp on the subject.
Sulphur Breakthrough Significantly Boosts Lithium... →
Awesome.
The Broken Promises of MRI/REE/YARV at time to... →
Holy shit. Ruby impl fail.
OS X Lion Allows Running Multiple Copies on the... →
This is fantastic news for developers of all types.
“Public memo: eventual consistency is not about scalability, it’s about...”
– Alex Feinberg
Ostrich Sans →
June 2011
19 posts
YTMND - uncle philTMND: Groovy potatoes →
So soft I want to dive right in.
Things you (probably) didn't know about xargs →
Netflix Ops Architecture And Policy →
This is awesome. They deploy whole AMIs.
Ew Dijkstra on number ranges and why indicies into... →
A fun little read.
Man robbed bank for $1 to cover jail health care |... →
At least we don’t have death panels.
Three Word Phrase: Internet Mom →
Hakyll →
Like Jekyll, but it uses Pandoc. Pandoc is an amazing piece of software, so anything based off of it is fine by me.
