The story of Douglas #Crockford’s mysterious ban from the Nodevember conference. #censorship
More about Douglas #Crockford being banned from Nodevember. #censorship
Instructions on how to make anything under cc-by, like an open Instructables.
An interview with, and profile of, artist Molly Crabapple.
Medieval surrealist #art: alchemical diagrams.
Discussion of the #Ohm editor based on PEG parsing.
What #Rust is hoping to do in 2017: lower learning curve, faster compiler, basic IDE support, “maturing core ecosystem” (whatever that means, possibly “that core functionality exists, is easy to find, and is of high quality”), “1.0-level” libraries for concurrency and parallelism, be well-equipped for writing servers, a more seamless FFI story, mentoring at all levels.
The #Ohm grammar editor: “Language Hacking in a Live Programming Environment”, from HARC contributors Dubroy, Kasibatla, Li, Röder, and Warth.
Protocol confusion #security holes are alive and well in 2016; Redis, Memcached, and Elasticsearch can all be accessed by JS in a browser that somehow manages to talk to localhost, and there are DNS tricks to do that.
#Visualization of the properties of different fluorescent proteins useful in molecular #biology, cc-by.
Structural #regular-expressions as used in sam.
The old #Fractint web site from spanky.triumf.ca is now moved to here, and this page was updated until 2010.
How to debug #PostScript code: an 8-line embeddable debugger, pstack, rebinding standard functions to traced versions, errordict hacking, ()=, =only, $error, ===, executive (twice if necessary), (yourfile)run, etc. Really super useful.
Discussion thread about moving into a van or other mobile home. Some guy who’s tooling around Africa in a Jeep posts. The OP they’re commenting on was a US$33000 van.