Posts tagged "programming":
Links #65
- Astral Codex Tex — Book Review Contest 2024 Winners
mentioned in the article: What if Marvel was real (I don't listen to podcasts, but this one seems original and fun)
“What would it be like to live through the original Marvel Universe as it was happening”. The hosts speak in modern vernacular, but otherwise live in the world of the early Silver Age of Marvel Comics. The first episode takes place in November 1961. The Thing and the Human Torch have just been spotted in the city, but no one knows who or what they are.
- Strava Segment Tutorial: Removing Suckage and Promoting Quality possibly outdated, but I love the level of detail
- Berlin to Copenhagen for Beginners: My First Bikepacking Adventure in 2024 great pictures, among the other things
- Multiplying matrices using functional programming I already knew
that (I think) rather famous expression of
transpose, but I've never seen the rest
Links #38
Links #25
- A web GUI for TikZ-cd
- Protesilaos Stavrou's Emacs configuration — I got several learnings from it, Protesilaos++ for spending time to do in a literate programming style.
Lunar Programming Language by David A. Moon
Lunar is my attempt to distill 40 years of programming language experience into the "best" language I can come up with. I hope that this will bring some forgotten ideas back into the spotlight of public attention.
- The Many Faces of an Undying Programming Language
Links #13
- Incredible Real-Time Touch Controller for the Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer
- Python Notebooks for Fundamentals of Music Processing
- Recoll finds documents based on their contents as well as their file names
Links #10
Links #6
- Data Visualization - A practical introduction, via bactra.org: "This book is the best guide I've seen to (1) learning the widely-used, and generally handsome, ggplot library in R, (2) learning the "grammar of graphics" principles on which it is based, and (3) learning the underlying psychological principles which make some graphics better or worse visualizations than others"
- You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
- OOP Before OOP with Simula
- Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2bn records/month
Links #5
- Kílta: "This is a personal language. By this I mean it is a step or two away from a heartlang. It is designed to express my own interests best, and few other considerations, apart from my own sense of linguisticesthetics, are in play here"
- Life Off the Grid, Part 1: Making Ultima Underworld
- About watercolor toxicity
Links #4
- The MAESTRO Dataset and Wave2Midi2Wave
- ISO 3013 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (commonly referred to as ISO), specifying a standardized method for brewing tea
- Introducing Darkstar: A Xerox Star Emulator
- Grid Edges: "Games with grids usually use the tiles but there are also cool things to do with edges and vertices. For construction games the edges can be useful for blocking connections between tiles (walls, chasms, windows) and allowing connections between tiles (doors, pipes, wires)."
Links #1
(I often encounter links that I think are interesting. I often forget them. So I'm going to try to collect and publish them regularly here).
- Forge: "Work with Git forges from the comfort of Magit"
- The best things and stuff of 2018: Annual restrospective post from Michael Fogus
- Writing a natural language date and time parser: parsing natural language date strings such as "7 hours before tomorrow at noon", in Lisp
- Emacs in 2018: My Year in Review
- It's Magit! - John Wiegley
- Best of 2017 in tech talks