End-user programming https://www.inkandswitch.com/end-user-programming.html

Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html

Joe Rogan’s podcast is an essential platform for freethinkers who hate the left. https://slate.com/culture/2019/03/joe-rogans-podcast-is-an-essential-platform-for-freethinkers-who-hate-the-left.html

What Happens When You Stop Speaking? https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/what-happens-when-you-stop-speaking.html

Kilo LISP - T3X.ORG http://t3x.org/klisp/index.html

Errata Security: A basic question about TCP https://blog.erratasec.com/2019/02/a-basic-question-about-tcp.html

How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood https://www.vulture.com/2018/07/how-wattpad-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-hollywood.html

William Gibson Talks ‘Archangel,’ Apocalypses, and Dystopias https://www.vulture.com/2017/08/william-gibson-archangel-apocalypses-dystopias.html

π day | cormullion https://cormullion.github.io/blog/2019/03/13/piday.html

DSHR’s Blog: Techno-hype part 2.5 https://blog.dshr.org/2018/03/techno-hype-part-25.html

All worldbuilding, without exception, is political | columns | Hindustan Times https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/all-worldbuilding-without-exception-is-political/story-iE1Gc0R4ULSq8khLaJ1dEO.html

GitHub - pirate/ArchiveBox: $ The open source self-hosted web archive. Takes browser history/bookmarks/Pocket/Pinboard/etc., saves HTML, JS, PDFs, media, and more… https://github.com/pirate/ArchiveBox

Author discovers the recentralization phenomenon, and concludes that centralization is inevitable (rather than that recentralization must be carefully avoided): https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html

Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.html

Lessons learned: writing really long fiction - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html

The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about http://yosefk.com/blog/what-worse-is-better-vs-the-right-thing-is-really-about.html

The Kernel Programming Language http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

Heat your House with a Water Brake Windmill - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/02/heat-your-house-with-a-water-brake-windmill.html

Project Zero: The Curious Case of Convexity Confusion https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-curious-case-of-convexity-confusion.html

Overcoming Bias : Better Babblers http://www.overcomingbias.com/2017/03/better-babblers.html

Ahead of Time http://histscifi.com/essays/milburn/time.html

Exploring Languages with Interpreters and Functional Programming 2018 Version https://john.cs.olemiss.edu/~hcc/csci450/ELIFP/ExploringLanguages.html

Jenny Owen’s website - Gosper’s Algorithm Explained https://jennyhasahat.github.io/hashlife.html

Watch Sesame Street’s long-lost “Cracks,” resurfaced by internet sleuths (VIDEO). https://slate.com/culture/2019/02/sesame-streets-cracks-video-watch.html

It got even better: http://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/index.html (from @gwern apparently?)

Evolutionary Futures http://histscifi.com/essays/milam/apeman.html

Sapping Attention: How badly is Google Books search broken, and why? https://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2019/02/how-badly-is-google-books-search-broken.html

Networking Cheatsheet http://gnulinux.guru/networking_cheatsheet.html

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

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

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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

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