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Shubhadeep Roychowdhury 2020-12-20 23:47:35

The web is 30 years old today - https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

Duncan Cragg 2020-12-20 23:50:05

Time to revisit it, and reinvent it! http://object.network/

Jack Rusher 🕰️ 2020-12-18 21:01:39

For all the minimal OS people (Kartik Agaram, I'm looking at you 🙂 ), here's a nice little interactive Gambit Scheme running directly on x86:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWr4iQfc0uw

🎥 Running Scheme On Bare Metal (Experience Report)

Jack Rusher 2020-12-21 09:37:21

Needing GC to implement scheme properly is one of the reasons I've long preferred to start by building a Forth. For my taste, it provides a similar level of interactive joy in a much more machine-sympathetic form. 🙂

Kartik Agaram 2020-12-21 18:08:32

Sometime in the last week it occurred to me that building something vaguely Forth-like as the highest level of the Mu stack probably seems like a perversion 🙂

Srini Kadamati 🕰️ 2020-12-18 20:13:49

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uE_chSnV8 TL;DR he should just read Alan Kay’s STEPS paper 🙂

🎥 Jonathan Blow on how an operating system should work

Emmanuel Oga 🕰️ 2020-12-07 03:23:36

has anybody seen https://www.mm-adt.org/ and https://www.mm-adt.org/vm/ ? (by one of the creators of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_(query_language)). I don't fully understand the concept but maybe someone here does?

🔗 mm-ADT

Srini Kadamati 2020-12-21 18:00:30

It’s kinda fun to spend time here: https://github.com/trending All kinds of neat projects, just stumbled into Vlang: https://github.com/vlang/v

Kartik Agaram 2020-12-24 02:49:01

This is really good: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/that-which-is-unique-breaks

I've long said/ranted that we programmers pretend we're an industry when we're really just a cottage industry. Behind this sentiment was the unspoken assumption that industrialization may one day happen, and that at the appropriate time it would be good. But now I wonder if it's even a desirable goal to aim for. Does the ability to build at scale really need to be practiced at scale? Perhaps certain things are harmed by scale.

🔗 That which is unique, breaks

Konrad Hinsen 2020-12-25 10:14:16

Nice essay on craft vs. industry. Software is in a particular place, because on one hand is undergoing some industrialization itself, whereas on the other hand it is enabling a transition towards cheap production of unique things (e.g. the Maker movement). Which, however, cannot be mended either when they break, so it's not quite a return to craft.

Konrad Hinsen 2020-12-25 10:17:30

An occasion to share the attached extended abstract submitted to https://www.shift-society.org/hapop5/, which was cancelled before submissions were even reviewed.

📄 The industrialization of informaton technology.pdf

Mariano Guerra 2020-12-24 10:10:32

https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/1340554548591480836

🐦 Charity Majors: Developer productivity, y'all. It is a three TRILLION dollar opportunity, per the stripe report.

Eng managers and directors, we have got to stop asking for "more headcount" and start treating this like the systems problem that it is. https://twitter.com/autiomaa/status/1340544179051646976 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpqbQVhUYAAPspo.jpg

🐦 Daniel Schildt: @mipsytipsy When people often have to spend weeks just to get a local development environment up, there is a lot to improve. 🙁

Mariano Guerra 2020-12-24 10:12:48 
It's the brutal grind of detangling stupid problems that should never have existed, repeatedly, with your eyes taped closed.
Emmanuel Oga 2020-12-27 07:20:36

"A Taxonomy of Grammar Smells" http://slebok.github.io/grass