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

An exciting journey with Forth. Read this. The author gave up in the end, by the way.

PostgREST is a standalone web server that turns your PostgreSQL database directly into a RESTful API. The structural constraints and permissions in the database determine the API endpoints and operations.

Sounds like a way to write less code. I skimmed through the reference, looks cool. PostgREST is written in Haskell for some reason though.

The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web.
A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview.
Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.

Book on htmx

save what you love. Contribute to imputnet/cobalt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Hour of the shroom

A PalmOS emulator for the web

Another thinkpad post for my collection.

Illich’s fundamental thesis in these three books - and throughout all of his work - is that the institutionalisation of competencies diminishes the individual’s ability to acquire them. Thus the institutionalisation of school diminishes our ability to learn, the institutionalisation of technology diminishes our ability to master tools, and the institutionalisation of medicine diminishes our ability to heal and to care for ourselves and others.

Amit's guide to math, algorithms, and code for hexagonal grids in games

I love Kinopio visuals...

to me, it feels wrong. i don't write for meticulous care & growth, i write because i'm desperate to (connect, understand, remember, leave something behind)

it reminds me that i'll die someday & i want people to remember who i was, and how i thought. i leave tracings of myself in this abyss, hoping that it'll help other people. it's fragments of me.

that's no garden. it's a mortal abyss. and i find a lot of meaning staring into it.