20 random bookmarks

Bookmarks and whatnot. Закладки и всякое.

2025-06-07

1932.

Common Lisp is a dumpster

nondv.wtf/blog/posts/common-lisp-is-a-dumpster.html

Common Lisp has a LOT of stuff in it. Some of it is charming. Some of it is plain weird

2025-05-10

1899.

The importance of virtue in software engineering

www.seangoedecke.com/character-in-software-engineering

An older version of this article called it character rather than virtue. I think it was a better phrasing.

2025-01-26

1735.

Consider SQLite

blog.wesleyac.com/posts/consider-sqlite

2025-01-03

1694.

Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House

www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-from-bauhaus-to-our-house

2024-12-06

Reposted 1615.

Работа в IT-компаниях Сербии

ruitunion.org/posts/2023-08-21-work-in-serbian-it-companies

Сравнение трудового законодательства в России и Сербии

2024-08-12

1440.

Stapler: I remade a 32 year old classic Macintosh app  ⌘I  Get Info

blog.gingerbeardman.com/2024/08/10/stapler-i-remade-a-32-year-old-classic-macintosh-app

The idea is you set up a Stapler Document per project containing related apps, files, folders, etc. Then you can open them all at once by launching the single document. Each document contains a list of aliases that can be managed, inspected, launched using the app. The key time-saver is that if you launch a Stapler Document directly, all the items in its list will automatically be launched. Cool!

I actually wanted that! And this one is a remake of a classic app. Cool.

2024-08-07

1427.

Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?

oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/07/pretty-pictures-bootable-floppy-disks.html

Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull ...

2024-07-16

1390.

Things you’re doing but don’t want to be doing

dynomight.net/paths

An analogy between coat racks, desire paths, arguing, vacuuming, reading, social media, drinking, vacations, and colonoscopies.

2024-06-27

Reposted 1348.

File Browser

filebrowser.org/features
Reposted 1347.

Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites

danilafe.com/blog/blog_microfeatures

In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites

2024-06-15

1324.

2024-06-14 Morality, justice and the law

alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-06-14-law

Regarding the recent Maven drama.

2024-06-07

1301.

Directory enquiries

adactio.com/journal/19342

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.

2024-04-11

1226.

About Freedom and Power

ploum.net/2024-04-08-freedom-power.html

2024-01-20

1068.

Federation is the Future for an Open Web

beza1e1.tuxen.de/federation_future.html

P2P technology is doomed on mobile [because of small batteries]. For a democratic web, we need to work on federation.

The author thought so in 2016. 8 years later I'm developing for the federated web, cool. I like how they mention Diaspora, which is history now.

2024-01-08

1024.

What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong

commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right-what-we-got-wrong.html

2023-11-21

895.

The Future of Search Is Boutique

future.com/the-future-of-search-is-boutique

The way to improve search is not to mimic Google, but instead to build boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.

891.

ЯОС - прототип безопасной русскоязычной операционной системы на базе проекта A2

www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=56339

Одна из основных целей проекта - кардинальное внедрение русского языка во всю систему, включая (хотя бы частичный) перевод исходных текстов на русский язык. ЯОС может работать как приложение в окне под Linux или Windows, а также в виде обособленной операционной системы на оборудовании x86 и ARM (поддерживаются платы Zybo Z7-10 и Raspberry Pi 2). Код написан на языке Active Oberon и распространяется под лицензией BSD.

Проект выступает основой для развития идей русскоязычного программирования, повышения комфорта работы с кириллицей и русским языком, опробования на практике разных подходов к вопросам терминологии и к глубине перевода. В отличие от существующих русскоязычных языков программирования, таких как 1С, Кумир и Глагол, проект нацелен на предоставление операционной системы полностью на русском языке, в которой переведён в том числе код загрузчика, ядра, компилятора и драйверов.

2023-08-26

599.

Sliding Blocks Computing - Catalog - Malleable Systems Forum

forum.malleable.systems/t/sliding-blocks-computing/75/3

2023-08-05

540.

Bun: SQL client for Golang

bun.uptrace.dev

Lightweight Golang ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and SQLite

2023-06-05

282.

Using computers more freely and safely

akkartik.name/freewheeling

Kartik rocking.