It’s easy to view yourself as “not a real programmer.” There are programs out there that everyone uses, and it’s easy to put their developers on a pedestal. Although developing large software projects isn’t easy, many times the basic idea of that software is quite simple. Implementing it yourself is a fun way to show that you have what it takes to be a real programmer. — Write a Shell in C

I believe I now need to give it a try: sklearn-clj. #python #clojure

Modernizing the OpenBSD console. #unix

Here’s the newcomer!

sectorlisp is an effort to bootstrap John McCarthy’s meta-circular evaluator on bare metal from a 512-byte boot sector. #lisp

Syncing my website (generated via Hugo): Transmit on macOS takes so much time (up to 5 min) compared to rsync (less than 20 sec). WTF?! Time to switch I guess.

The baseline minimum is that to qualify as free publishing it must be both free to read and free to publish, both for the reader/author and for their institution. So free publishing may be defined to be the same thing as diamond open access. — Free publishing

RSS Feeds by Email.

Once tabs became mainstream, they changed the way people surfed. I still clean my tabs out every day, but some people keep hundreds of the things running, as if this somehow makes them more organized. On average, desktop web browsers have around 10-20 tabs open; mobile browsers, which encourage you to keep them lingering in the background, have more. — The stagnant browser

Programming in the Common Lisp Ecosystem. #lisp