NixCon 2018
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2018, the
third Nix Conference, will take place October 25-27 2018 in London
For more information, see the
NixCon 2018 website.
And please consider
submitting a talk! ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Whatâs That Smell Youâre Reading? | Science History Institute https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
Medium really REALLY wants me to re-read that tedium piece about CD longboxes, this past month
Apparently, the term ‘intellectual darknet’ is trending on twitter. Is this a reference to LW, or to incel communities? Or, are people finally reading Neoreaction: A Basilisk?
Bad idea of the day: a system for sharing playlists of things that aren’t audio or online video, like themed triple-features or reading lists, so you can curate or browse that kind of human recommendation
195 people read my twtxt today. Ha, Twitter should be afraid!
Substring: How to Split a String ⌘ Read more…
Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.
So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.
Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more
The alt-right is drunk on bad readings of Nietzsche. The Nazis were too. - Vox https://www.vox.com/2017/8/17/16140846/alt-right-nietzsche-richard-spencer-nazism
Surprise: Facebook admits it did not read terms of the app that harvested data of 87 million.
The Book No One Read - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read
@mdom@domgoergen.com if you can read this my bot works with #txtnish. :D
Headlines making you anxious? Delay reading them | Oliver Burkeman | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/06/how-to-handle-headline-anxiety-take-time-reading-news-oliver-burkeman
Somebody on mastodon linked me to this, and it’s a fantastic syllabus. Highly recommend reading ALL of these: https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/hyperreal-VRp8uyehhIOdW3tET3O64
NixOS 18.03 released
NixOS 18.03 “Impala” has been released, the ninth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.03 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
For information on how to upgrade from older release branches
to 18.03, check … ⌘ Read more
Apply Middleware to Your Route Handlers ⌘ Read more…
If you can read this I made my first twtxt post by sending a message to a xmpp bot. :)
A practitionerâs guide to reading programming languages papers | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/26/a-practitioners-guide-to-reading-programming-languages-papers/
Instead of watching Pop Team Epic, just read this essay, which is more satisfying: http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-1.html
GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems
Generating a SHA256 HMAC Hash ⌘ Read more…
The Believer Midwestern Gothic https://www.believermag.com/issues/201802/?read=article_midwestern_gothic
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469
Reading Nabokov’s Dream Diary | The New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/146906/night-vision
📚 Finished reading The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph
📚 Finished reading The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph
Read the Into the Black Contest‘s Winning St… https://io9.gizmodo.com/read-the-into-the-black-contests-winning-story-set-in-1822338909
Nix 2.0 released
Nix 2.0
has been released. See the release\
notes for a list of changes and new features. ⌘ Read more
📚 Finished reading We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham
📚 Finished reading We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham
📚 Finished reading How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
📚 Finished reading How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds by Alan Jacobs
📚 Finished reading Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes
📚 Finished reading Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation by Edward Humes
📚 Finished reading Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondō
📚 Finished reading Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up by Marie Kondō
📚 Finished reading Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently by David Ludwig
📚 Finished reading Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
Converting a PDF to JPG (using ImageMagick) ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life by Helen Czerski
Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html
📚 Finished reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
Creating, Wrapping and Handling Errors ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
📚 Finished reading A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans
📚 Finished reading A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization by Robert Evans
📚 Finished reading Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
📚 Finished reading Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
📚 Finished reading The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: How to Stop Spending Time You Don’t Have with People You Don’t Like Doing Things You Don’t Want to Do (A No F*cks Given Guide) by Sarah Knight
Adversarial examples for evaluatin… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/13/adversarial-examples-for-evaluating-reading-comprehension-systems/
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📚 Finished reading Siddhartha’s Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment by James Kingsland
📚 Finished reading Siddhartha’s Brain: Unlocking the Ancient Science of Enlightenment by James Kingsland
📚 Finished reading What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing (The MIT Press) by Ed Finn
📚 Finished reading What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn
📚 Finished reading The Underachiever’s Manifesto: The Guide to Accomplishing Little and Feeling Great by Ray Bennett
📚 Finished reading The Underacheiver’s Manifesto by Ray Bennett
📚 Finished reading 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
We don’t even live in a cyberpunk dystopia. We live in one of those early-90s cyberpunk ripoff stories by an author who half-read Neuromancer & missed the point.
📚 Finished reading 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
📚 Finished reading Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
📚 Finished reading Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
How to Read Mathematics http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dcranston/490/handouts/math-read.html
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📚 Finished reading Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators by Guy Armstrong
While True: Looping in Go ⌘ Read more…
"STRANGER THINGS: A Bad Lip Reading" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4rhjO6xYg
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Vrillon: the alien voice hoax that became a legend | The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/vrillon-hacking-alien-voice-seventies-extra-terrestrial-hoax-unexplained-mysteries-a8069926.html
The Declaration of Independence Is Hard to Read http://nautil.us/issue/54/the-unspoken/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-english-sentence
Just installed twtxt as I already wanted to try it when reading about it there: https://robbinaer.info/index.php?article93/twtxt
Handle Ctrl+C (Signal Interrupt) Close in the Terminal ⌘ Read more…
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Check If a File Exists Before Using It ⌘ Read more…
Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables
Search and Replace in a String ⌘ Read more…
I did not think I would ever read ‘… is extremely fast. Its performance is similar to that of Java…’
📚 Finished reading Experiments in Ethics (The Mary Flexner Lectures) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
📚 Finished reading Experiments in Ethics (The Mary Flexner Lectures) by Kwame Anthony Appiah
NixOS 17.09 released
NixOS 17.09 “Hummingbird” has been released, the eigth stable release
branch. See the release\
notes
for details. You can get NixOS 17.09 ISOs and VirtualBox
appliances from the download\
page. For information on how to upgrade from older release
branches to 17.09, check out the manual\
section on\
upgrading. ⌘ Read more
Set a HTTP Cookie Response Header ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
📚 Finished reading Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
Code is not literature http://www.gigamonkeys.com/code-reading/
Read a CSV File into a Struct ⌘ Read more…
📚 Finished reading Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet by Jimmy Moore
📚 Finished reading Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet by Jimmy Moore
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
📚 Finished reading How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
📚 Finished reading How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg
📚 Finished reading Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
📚 Finished reading Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
📚 Finished reading Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy
📚 Finished reading Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy