Server-side rendering, dreamweaving, personal blogging!
In big cultural concepts like music or fashion, things have a way of coming around full circle. I'm pretty sure someday grunge will come back as a hot new sample, and at some point our kids might think frosted hair tips are totally cool.
How to Fold a Julia Fractal (via conceptviz.github.io).
The dark tri tetrad.
Why People Become Internet Trolls.
Relevant: Ever taken pleasure in another’s pain? That’s ‘everyday sadism’.
Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation.
Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation—the intellectual and biographical fork-in-the-road separating an academic career in computer science from the one at Bell Labs leading to C and Unix. Why?
You're Almost Entirely Blind.
What if I told you that you’re almost completely blind? That which you perceive as darkness is you missing 99% of available information. In this issue, I look at ways we can reduce that loss.
Gemini is a new, collaboratively designed internet protocol, which explores the space inbetween gopher and the web, striving to address (perceived) limitations of one while avoiding the (undeniable) pitfalls of the other.
The VR winter.
This should have been a VR moment, and it isn’t.
How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal.
In 2016 I designed a plain-text file format for crossword puzzle data, and then spent a couple of months building a micro-data-pipeline, scraping tens of thousands of crosswords from various sources. Then, having all those crosswords in a simple format, I wanted to see if there were any common grid patterns--and discovered egregious plagiarism by a major crossword editor that had gone on for years.
An essay called The psychology of learning from 2003 by Robert Strandh, director of the Département d'Informatique at Université Bordeaux, France, describes a trend in computing where close-mindedness (my phrase) risks opportunities for learning and effectiveness.