Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/14/cream-of-panther-modern.html

Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

Make it Simple: A Tale about Robert Dewar https://dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html

A Retrospective on PAIP http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html

Idiotbox: Youtube interface: https://www.codemadness.org/idiotbox.html

The Future of Thinking: http://histscifi.com/essays/dick/thinking.html

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

Periodic reminder that the links I post here also get collected at http://www.lord-enki.net/links.html (including stuff that didn’t post because title fetching failed)

Programming Z3 https://theory.stanford.edu/~nikolaj/programmingz3.html

Smalltalk performance and Moore’s Law https://www.mail-archive.com/kragen-tol@canonical.org/msg00185.html

1969 & 70 - Bell Labs http://www.larryluckham.com/1969%20&%2070%20-%20Bell%20Labs/album/index.html

Outperforming everything with anything https://wordsandbuttons.online/outperforming_everything_with_anything.html

Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page05.html#post117

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page05.html#post120

Why I use old hardware | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/23/Why-I-use-old-hardware.html

An Informal Exploration of Structural Sharing, Proxies, and Copy-on-Write Semantics http://raganwald.com/2019/01/14/structural-sharing-and-copy-on-write.html

Ontology Overrated: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

Female Viagra UK, Buy Viagra - Online Pharmacy, Best Offer. http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html

TELNET: The Mother of All (Application) Protocols https://www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-v2.html

[Toybox] More than you really wanted to know about patch. http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2019-January/010049.html

When do people learn languages? http://www.zompist.com/whylang.html

The Sorcerer Supreme! https://200wordrpg.github.io/2017/rpg/2017/04/15/TheSorcererSupreme.html

Can Conspiracy Thrillers Work Under a Conspiracy Presidency? https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/can-conspiracy-thrillers-work-under-a-conspiracy-presidency.html

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page03.html#post52

The Agile Labor Union http://www.metareader.org/post/agile-labor-union.html

Evolution of the x86 context switch in Linux – MaiZure’s Projects http://www.maizure.org/projects/evolution_x86_context_switch_linux/index.html

Introduction https://www.inferentialthinking.com/chapters/intro.html

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page02.html#post46

Understanding Generic Cell Rate Limiting - cat /dev/brain https://blog.ian.stapletoncordasco.com/2018/12/understanding-generic-cell-rate-limiting.html

Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html

Old English Computer Glossary http://www.u.arizona.edu/~ctb/wordhord.html

Social networks, the old way - enpo.no https://enpo.no/2019/2019-01-10-social-networks-the-old-way.html

Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html

Why Can’t We Tip Amazon Warehouse Workers? http://www.miraclejones.com/essays/why-cant-we-tip-amazon-warehouse-workers.html

thread(3) - Plan 9 from User Space https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/thread.html

Flow-based Programming :: Comparison http://www.jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/noflo.html

Native talk https://via.hypothes.is/https://gozala.hashbase.io/posts/Native%20talk.html

J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: His 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-ballards-experimental-text-collages.html

”[The internet] never made it [to] Stage C […]. A truly networked cosmopolitanism needs to be more distributed. It can be local without being parochial” - James Bridle in https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page02.html#post30

Fundsache: “Ob das Internet in 20 Jahren genauso kommerzialisiert sein wird wie etwa die öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehsender (die ursprünglich auch vollkommen ohne Werbung ausgekommen sind), liegt an den Weichen, die jetzt gestellt werden. Wenn das Internet eines Tages nur noch als Träger von Werbung fungiert und große Unternehmen das Angebot bestimmen, sind die Chancen vertan worden, die wir heute haben.” Source: https://events.ccc.de/congress/1994/internet-hype_folgen.html

Constructing Exocortices with Huginn and Halo https://drwho.virtadpt.net/files/HOPE_XI-constructing_exocortices.html#slide4

Notes on Floppy Disks https://extrapages.de/archives/20190102-Floppy-notes.html

Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html

The real story behind Margot Robbie’s wild Queen Elizabeth I makeup. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/queen-elizabeth-makeup-margot-robbie-mary-queen-of-scots-real-story.html

The WELL: State of the World 2019 https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/506/State-of-the-World-2019-page01.html

Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

An interesting alternative to my ‘big vs small computing’ distinction is the wizard vs engineer distinction discussed here: https://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html

White Mirror: How did Microsoft’s 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/how-did-microsofts-2009-predic.html

GAIJIN RIDER - Yanki and Bosozoku Culture… An Outsider looks in http://gaijinrider.altervista.org/Articles/ARTICLES_Yanki_and_Bosozoku_Origins.html

social_media_design | How should names work in a distributed system? A suggestion for a context-aware petname approach https://social-media-design.dreamwidth.org/886.html

nettime-l Nov 18 https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-1811/threads.html#00094

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html

Open source DIY ethics https://arp242.net/weblog/diy.html

Every once in a while I’m reminded that Cory Doctorow is a brilliant & deep thinker. This interview is one of those times: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/15/first-days-better-nations.html

Peer to Peer Routing http://ctvr.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2.05/group6/index.html

Playing with P2P protocols and Firefox http://andregarzia.com/2018/12/playing-with-p2p-protocols-and-firefox.html

Topology of Numbers http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/TN/TNpage.html

Facebook workers are the only people who can hold the company accountable. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html

Edward Gorey’s macabre tarot deck from 1966 / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/18/edward-goreys-macabre-tarot.html

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html

Design: The Dymaxion American - TIME http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875527-1,00.html

Aquaman pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft. It’s his worst nightmare. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/aquaman-movie-hp-lovecraft-racism-miscegenation.html

Human Computer Interaction: Metaphors https://tpetricek.github.io/Teaching/human-computer-interaction/metaphors.html#/7/2

Sprite https://web.archive.org/web/20040402163929/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/sprite.html

Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html

The Norse Mythology Blog | norsemyth.org: Questioning Loki, Part One | Articles & Interviews on Myth & Religion https://www.norsemyth.org/2013/01/questioning-loki-part-one.html

GXemul - Documentation (0.6.1) http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#sprite

About | Yggdrasil https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/about.html

Hey, maybe now that microsoft is pushing chrome, things will get bad enough that electron will be dropped & developers will remember that cross-platform GUI toolkits exist that don’t involve spamming HTML

Command-Line Options10.Configuration”/>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html

Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html

Rhizomes 31 * Ali Sperling * H.P. Lovecraft’s Weird Body http://www.rhizomes.net/issue31/sperling.html

Teaching kids to code: I’m a developer and I think it doesn’t actually teach important skills. https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/12/against-teaching-kids-to-code-creativity-problem-solving.html

Chicken mesh and plywood radio/wifi reflector dish. - Brute Force and Ignorance https://solarflower.blogspot.com/2011/07/chicken-mesh-and-plywood-radiowifi.html

W O R D S https://garbados.github.io/my-blog/browsers-are-a-mess.html

Tumblr’s adult-content ban could doom it with fandom communities. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/tumblr-fandom-adult-content-ban-livejournal.html

While we Blink, we loose the Web https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html

MST3K creator Joel Hodgson on 30 years of making fun of movies. https://slate.com/culture/2018/12/mst3k-joel-hodgson-interview-netflix.html

Regular Expression Matching with a Trigram Index https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp4.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/machines.html

GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ikarth/silk/master/silk.html

TAWS - The Amiga Workbench Simulation is loading… http://www.taws.ch/WB.html

Undefined Behavior Is Really Undefined https://cryptoservices.github.io/fde/2018/11/30/undefined-behavior.html

Thread by @Aelkus: “Strange Days is seriously underrated The aesthetic of the movie, like Blade Runner is, very good and timeless due to its combination of futu […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1069354595527344128.html

.……….//: Embracing the New Flesh http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html

David Byrne on True Stories, American Utopia, and his unofficial American triptych. https://slate.com/culture/2018/11/david-byrne-true-stories-american-utopia-interview.html

GAN Paint http://gandissect.res.ibm.com/ganpaint.html?project=churchoutdoor&layer=layer4

History of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) https://daniel.haxx.se/irchistory.html

Errata Security: Some notes about HTTP/3 https://blog.erratasec.com/2018/11/some-notes-about-http3.html#.W_vnQUfav0M

Three-Speed Logic http://threespeedlogic.com/python-tworoutines.html

Slow Software https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html

Dawn for SUBLEQ http://gerigeri.uw.hu/DawnOS/index.html

A Big Archive of Occult Recordings: Historic Audio Lets You Hear Trances, Paranormal Music, Glossolalia & Other Strange Sounds (1905-2007) | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-big-archive-of-occult-recordings.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/taste.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/organic.html

Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin , usr/sbin split http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-December/074114.html

All HTML - esoteric.codes https://esoteric.codes/blog/all-html

I don’t agree with this at all, but I’ve gotta respect this level of trolling: https://wordsandbuttons.online/if_i_were_to_invent_a_programming_language_for_the_21st_century.html

Jehanne Operating System http://jehanne.io/2018/11/15/simplicity-awakes.html