C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-11-15-c-portability.html

The Source History of Cat https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html

Togelius: Empiricism and the limits of gradient descent http://togelius.blogspot.com/2018/05/empiricism-and-limits-of-gradient.html

Systems, Not Programs https://shalabh.com/programmable-systems/systems-not-programs.html

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

The Haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haunting-of-657-boulevard-in-westfield-new-jersey.html

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

Man-Computer Symbiosis https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html

Toward an exploratory medium for mathematics http://cognitivemedium.com/emm/emm.html

Striking user interfaces http://cognitivemedium.com/striking_ui/striking_ui.html

Moved Temporarily http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html

Five Geek Social Fallacies http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html

The Future Will be Technical https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html

Preface - APL and J https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/apl.html

APL deserves its renaissance too http://wordsandbuttons.online/apl_deserves_its_renaissance_too.html

webreview.com - Why Rebol Matters https://web.archive.org/web/19991012205739/http://webreview.com:80/pub/1999/08/27/feature/index2.html

Inform: Past, Present, Future http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

DigiBarn: PERQ T2 and all about PERQs http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/perqt2/index.html

Inferno Downloads http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/downloads.html

Jehanne http://jehanne.io/pages/overview.html

PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html

DigiBarn Systems: Swyft information appliance http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/swyft/index.html

KolibriOS - The art of small https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kolibrios.html

Chuck Moore’s Fire Side Chat 1996 http://www.ultratechnology.com/fsc96.html

Color Forth http://www.ultratechnology.com/color4th.html

OK Operating System Ver F1.01 http://www.ultratechnology.com/ok101.html

P21Forth 1.02 User’s Manual http://www.ultratechnology.com/p21intro.html

The Programming Language Oberon https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html

Self Tutorial https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~urs/oocsb/self/release/Self-4.0/Tutorial/index.html

DigiBarn Software: Xerox Alto Operating System and Alto Applications http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/alto/index.html

DigiBarn Devices: Mouse from Xerox Alto (with keyset) http://www.digibarn.com/collections/devices/alto-mouse/index.html

DigiBarn Devices: Keyset from Xerox Alto II XM http://www.digibarn.com/collections/devices/alto-keyset/index.html

SALTO - The Xerox Alto Simulator http://toastytech.com/guis/salto2.html

SALTO - The Xerox Alto Simulator http://toastytech.com/guis/salto.html

“Hello world” in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simulator http://www.righto.com/2016/06/hello-world-in-bcpl-language-on-xerox.html

Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto simulator: games and Smalltalk http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html

If-statements in Smalltalk - Beware of the Train https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/94558.html

DigiBarn Books: A Decade of Research @ Xerox PARC: Scientific American Article on Xerox Alto, 1977 http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/xerox-parc-1970-80/alto-article/index.html

DigiBarn Computer Museum: Why Alto? Butler Lampson’s Historic 1972 Memo http://www.digibarn.com/friends/butler-lampson/index.html

The Animated Guide to Paredit http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.html

Scheme Macros V: Conditionals | Veit’s Blog https://blog.veitheller.de/Scheme_Macros_V:_Conditionals.html

Abstract Heresies: Not Lisp again…. https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Untitled Document: 1. “Introduction” http://www.unlambda.com/lmman/lmman_1.html

Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum https://www.ifis.uni-luebeck.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/index.html

Preindustrial workers worked fewer hours than today’s http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html

Running a Gopher Server in 2018 https://prgmr.com/blog/gopher/2018/11/09/setting-up-gopherserver.html

Simple Feed Ranking Algorithm http://datagenetics.com/blog/october32018/index.html

Resources for A Survey Of Alternatives http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html

I’m going to be periodically posting research resources for the new book here, as I find them: http://www.lord-enki.net/resources-survey-of-alternatives.html

Nix Language Primer | binary.phile http://www.binaryphile.com/nix/2018/07/22/nix-language-primer.html

The Programming Language Oberon https://miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html

If-statements in Smalltalk - Beware of the Train https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/94558.html

Scheme Macros V: Conditionals | Veit’s Blog https://blog.veitheller.de/Scheme_Macros_V:_Conditionals.html

Are.na / Blog “ Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere https://www.are.na/blog/case%20study/2018/06/12/women-in-hypertext.html

Vietnam’s Low-tech Food System Takes Advantage of Decay | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/02/vietnams-low-tech-fermentation-food-system-takes-advantage-of-decay.html

Metadata: Judoing the Dunning-Kruger effect: the “surprisingly-popular option” strategy for crowdsourcing https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/judoing-dunning-kruger-effect.html

Cesar Sayoc and others on Twitter are behaving like bots. https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/cesar-sayoc-twitter-humans-behaving-bots.html

Probably Overthinking It: The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-inspection-paradox-is-everywhere.html

Popcorn Culture: Census Bloodbath http://jiffypopculture.blogspot.com/p/census-bloodbath.html

Abstract Heresies: Not Lisp again…. https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html

GNU Kind Communications Guidelines https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html

THE MEDIA BUSINESS: Encountering The Digital Age – An occasional look at computers in everday life.; Potboiler Springs From Computer’s Loins - The New Yor… https://www.nytimes.com/1993/07/02/us/media-business-encountering-digital-age-occasional-look-computers-everday-life.html

Robin “Sourdough” Sloan is using a machine-learning autocomplete system to write his next novel / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/19/t9-for-auteurs.html

Vectorized Emulation: Hardware accelerated taint tracking at 2 trillion instructions per second | Gamozo Labs Blog https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_emulation.html

How Lisp Became God’s Own Programming Language https://twobithistory.org/2018/10/14/lisp.html

Supply-Chain Security - Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/supply-chain_se.html

Thread by @morganknutson: “Now that Google+ has been shuttered, I should air my dirty laundry on how awful the project and exec team was. I’m still pissed about the ba […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1049523067506966529.html

Protobuffers Are Wrong :: Reasonably Polymorphic http://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/protos-are-wrong/index.html

Debunking “OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation” and a few words about Tor’s directory authorities https://dustri.org/b/debunking-osint-analysis-of-the-tor-foundation-and-a-few-words-about-tors-directory-authorities.html

NixOS 18.09 released

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James Stanley - Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html

Fastly supports NixOS
We are happy to announce that we have moved our binary cache to Fastly. Fastly
is a big supporter of open source projects and now NixOS is one of them! Fastly provides us with CDN capability,
which previously was running on AWS CloudFront. Big thanks go to Fastly, in particular Tom Denniston and Elaine
Greenberg, our friends at Infor and Packet.com
and Graham Christensen for making this possible. ⌘ Read more

Inspired by ‘They Live,’ these glasses block screens / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/10/03/inspired-by-they-live-the.html

Inform: Past, Present, Future http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

A Short History of Chaosnet https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/30/chaosnet.html

Toward a Critical Technical Practice https://web.archive.org/web/20051221192206/http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html

Readme Driven Development http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html

Robert Venturi and Learning From Las Vegas: his legacy. https://slate.com/business/2018/09/robert-venturi-architect-las-vegas-lessons-obituary.html

Do my Homework - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/do-my-homework.html

OLIVE: a system for emulating old OSes on old processors that saves old data from extinction / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/22/preserving-digital-heritage.html

Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Web Prolog https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2018/09/24/concurrent-and-distributed-programming-in-web-prolog.html

Error 406 - Not Acceptable http://www.iedu.com/Solar/Panels/index.html

DSHR’s Blog: It Isn’t About The Technology https://blog.dshr.org/2018/01/it-isnt-about-technology.html

Media Piracy and Unpronounceable Names - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/media-piracy-and-unpronounceab.html

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

The Rise and Demise of RSS https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/16/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss.html

“I doubt me an it be commercial.” - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/09/i-doubt-me-an-it-be-commercial.html

Lisa Hanawalt of BoJack Horseman Talks to Heather Havrilesky https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/lisa-hanawalt-of-bojack-horseman-talks-to-heather-havrilesky.html

Hyperstition: MEGALITHIC ASTROPUNK http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004932.html

Hack everything without fear | Drew DeVault’s Blog https://drewdevault.com/2018/03/17/Hack-everything-without-fear.html

Numbers Every Programmer Should Know By Year https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html

Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html

The Surreal Joys Of The Beautiful Book Of Exquisite Corpses / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/09/05/the-surreal-joys-of-the-beauti.html

Homogeneous Operating Systems Are Better https://ecc-comp.blogspot.com/2014/12/homogeneous-operating-systems-are-better.html

The Thunder Child: Vertlieb’s Views: Dracula in the 1970s: Prints of Darkness http://thethunderchild.com/VertliebsViews/Dracua-PrintsofDarkness.html

Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new. -… https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/silicon-valleys-attempts-to-self-police-are-anti-democratic-theyre-also-not-new/2018/08/17/cd44fb22-9b1d-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on

Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/group_enemy.html

Learning BASIC Like It’s 1983 https://twobithistory.org/2018/09/02/learning-basic.html