Why Does "=" Mean Assignment? (Via reddit.com.)
I don’t know if this adds anything to the conversation. I just like software history.
Let’s analyse David Lynch Teaches Typing as if it’s a David Lynch movie.
Still sceptical.
Why good people turn bad online.
Meet the scientists finding out how we can defeat our inner trolls and build more cooperative digital societies.
For the record.
Quite humblebragginly proud to see my name is even mentioned in the preface of “Die Erforschung des Chaos”, the book yours truly contributed some lines of KeTeX, Metafont symbols and of course lots of proofreading to in 1993.
Bonus fact: the preface beautifully gives props to the inventor of KeTeX’s new-born son, too.
How Not to Order Water from a Robot Waiter.
Participant: Can I have one water? Robot: Yes, that is permissible.
It was my exasperated acknowledgement that looking for good software to count on has been a losing battle. Written by people with either no time or no money, most software gets shipped the moment it works well enough to let someone go home and see their family. What we get is mostly terrible.
The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user.
I've seen the the future and it has been.
The Hatching Cat – True and Unusual Animal Tales of Old New York.