George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. Market for lemons and whatnot.

rand($.) < 1 && ($line = $_) while <>;

Pick a random line from a file without knowing its size beforehand. The algorithm can be easily adjusted to many a thing...

How come Perl is so fun?

The solution to all of these problems

I humbly put forward that modern web development provides us all the utilities to move away from class names and implement something much more robust, with some fairly straightforward changes:

Attributes

Attributes allow us to parameterise a component using a key-value representation, very similar to Map<string, T>. Browsers come with a wealth of selector functions to parse the values of an attribute.

Fighting the undefined behaviors.

The rate at which a bird needs to flap its wings to stay aloft is a surprisingly complicated question due to the complex dynamics.

Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. This post briefly covers this project from start to end.

Красота

.DS_Store means Desktop Services Store. Desktop Services were not released in the end.

via https://links.nikityy.me/310

An interview with Kinopio's creator.

This Mac is uncharging in a world where things change by the minute. It will never receive another software update and is thoroughly obsolete, but it's comforting to have something that you know will stay the same forever, remaining in a known state every time you return to it.

Deep in a forest in the Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a castle the medieval way — no motorized machines included.

Very cool! I wanna see it.

The first being – how can they get away with this?

Second – will they be able to sell it?

Third – will we ever see this device in production?

La Russie est en effet l’un des seuls pays à disposer d’un écosystème presque complet de plates-formes et de services indépendants de ceux de la Silicon Valley, fondés par des Russes et régis par le droit russe.

The game!

This person develops tools for the Fediverse in Go.

using rss to generate permissionless social activity feeds for source code repositories

My experiment with a Mini Cubes-inspired spatial information manager.

Notes on Uxn.

"A good test case for whether a license is free (for issues like this) is whether a disconnected group of people on a desert island could distribute the software among themselves. In the vim case, they cannot. (For example, if the vim maintainer flies over the island and drops down a message saying "you must hereby send me your changes", how are the people down below to comply?) The fact that the vim maintainer can send the request does not say anything about whether the people receiving it could reply."