Human folly for 02019-02-05

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• Microkernels and component based OS (fosdem.org):

  microkernel talks at FOSDEM this year; at some point perhaps the audio will be uploaded

• Tagometers and travesties (blog.lmorchard.com):

  lmorchard tells the story of #delicious and its tags and #JSON (an important turning point in JSON #history really)

• PayPal no platforms moribund records for satanic beliefs (deathmetal.org):

  #censorship via #PayPal of heavy metal music for either Satanism, Nazism, or both

• Hyperlook nee HyperNeWS nee goodnews (medium.com):

  Don Hopkins tells the #history of "HyperNeWS" with lots of screenshots. #UX

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Don Hopkins tells a bit of the #history of #HyperNeWS. #UX

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Don Hopkins on how we ought to implement X window managers in #JS in a browser runtime #UX

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Don Hopkins explains why #X11 is horrible #UX

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Don Hopkins explains the history of tabbed window managers #UX

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  Don Hopkins explains why #X11 is horrible and why you should write your window manager in #JS. #UX

• Property based testing (fsharpforfunandprofit.com):

  Some ideas for generative #testing: “Different paths, same destination”, “There and back again”, “Some things never change”, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”, “Solve a smaller problem first”, “Hard to prove, easy to verify”, “The test oracle”

• Book stateful properties (propertesting.com):

  how to do stateful generative #testing in #Erlang with Proper.