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

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

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

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