In this paper, we first present an analysis and comparison of

the energy efficiency of 27 well-known software languages
from the popular software repository The Computer Lan-
guage Benchmarks Game. We are able to show which were the
most energy efficient software languages, execution types,
and paradigms across 10 different benchmark problems.

C wins in every regard. Other compiled languages perform very well too.

Stolyarov leaves us no rest.

A list of approaches to completely avoid when designing software. A bit too extreme, on the impractical side, but manifestos like this inspire thought.

Why I Erased 10,000 Notes, 7 Years of Ideas, and Every Thought I Tried to Save

Insightful

They say coffee drinkers don't actually care about coffee

Старый концепт Ильи про ультимативное решение фирасок и орасок.

The world sees Japan as a paragon of minimalism. But its hidden clutter culture shows that ‘more’ can be as magical as ‘less’

Useful Java AOP Aspects is a collection of useful AOP aspects and Java annotations which allow you to modify the behavior of your Java application without writing lots of duplicate code.

Linked in the Elegant Objects book.

Search engines put their money on computation, or to use today’s parlance, algorithms (or if you’re really shameless, AI). Directories put their money on humans. Good ol’ information architecture.

It turned out that computation scaled faster than humans. Search won out over directories.

Another unfortunate Fediverse developer shares their woes.

This is a small website for inhabitants of the Town of Merveilles to share their locations with each other, to help with organizing events and such. It's built with Go, and uses a very simple database (read: a csv file) to store locations.

Sun Thinking is a group exhibition that brings together artists, writers, and researchers to explore the qualities and logics of solar power and solar powered computing networks. It presents a collection of network-based artworks, games, texts, and interviews and is the first exhibition project to be hosted on the Solar Protocol network.

I visit it from time to time. This is a special wiki. In 2020 — 2021 it was pretty active thanks to my introduction. This wiki is where I learned about Alex and Lion.