A reporter talks to Larry Wall (and Eric Raymond and Tim O'Reilly) at the zenith of the Perl era.
After writing a few programs in Go, I appreciate its simplicity and how easy it is to cross-complile and deploy simple programs, but I agree its type system is a bit too simple.
The most clear introduction to generating functions and their uses that I've found.
computational geometry, chess, running, programming...
The Internet Archive's collection of DOS games you can play in the browser.
On Maureen Wilton's 1967 marathon world record at the age of 13.
I enjoyed this presentation by Ted Yapo about his DIY sampling scope.
Argument in favor of returning errors instead of raising exceptions.
Fun example of using a topological theorem to solve a discrete puzzle.
Sum types in Go with interfaces and runtime type switches.
On a fun way to re-discover Dirichlet's prime number theorem.
Dave Winer's weblog is 25 years old.
(Asked in 2011)
sometimes cp is better than dd
Engineering with webbing.
