Over the last decade or so, Apple has been hard at work in simplifying the user interfaces that power its myriad platforms. I’ve welcomed most of that work, but it’s hard to deny that we’ve all lost some things along the way. — The History of Cover Flow

Interesting read on enumerating trees. #haskell

The discrete logarithm. #math

There is a phenomenon in society which I find quite bizarre. Upon our entry to this mortal coil, we are endowed with self-awareness, agency, and free will. Each of the 8 billion members of this human race represents a unique person, a unique worldview, and a unique agency. Yet, many of us have the same fundamental goals and strive to live the same life. — Going off-script

There was a time we were able to wait the end of film or series credits to learn about the song titles and things like that. Thanks to Netflix, this is no longer possible, you will switch to the next ep. before you have time to reach the end of (all due) credits. Old times good times.

Linux is borrowing unused memory for disk caching. This makes it look like you are low on memory, but you are not! Everything is fine! — Linux ate all my RAM

Picking when to assert is much like picking when to comment, except more explicit and more effective. — How to assert for fun and profit

Exploratory Data Analysis for Humanities Data, and a load of Awk and Python scripts on the Literature as Data homepage.

What is in a modern code editor? Auto-formatters and terminal emulators are really a plus, indeed.

Out of curiosity, I plugged my DAC (the little box above the Denon amp in this post) onto my computer and, guess what, it just worked!