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2019-12-20 09:43 #
2019-12-20 09:41 #

This Page is Designed to Last, with seven unconventional guidelines in how we handle websites designed to be informative, to make them easy to maintain and preserve.

2019-12-20 09:37 #

Humans seem to be wired to believe that we can and should try to improve ourselves and our surroundings, but in a mechanistic world (random or otherwise), it doesn’t actually matter what you do. This question is Absurd because of the conflict between self-improvement—and a desire to do good in the world—being some of the most important reasons that humans have to exist, and the issue that if free will is an illusion then we’re all just taking credit for the universe unfolding as it was going to anyway. — How Absurdism Applies in Everyday Life

2019-12-20 09:29 #

Every minute of every day, everywhere on the planet, dozens of companies — largely unregulated, little scrutinized — are logging the movements of tens of millions of people with mobile phones and storing the information in gigantic data files. — Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy

2019-12-20 09:28 #

GGplot available for Perl users.

2019-12-19 20:38 #
2019-12-19 12:06 #

Math.js is an extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js. #javascript

2019-12-19 12:03 #

Real World Haskell book. #haskell

2019-12-19 08:41 #

Soon to be on holiday for the rest of the decade! With 160 posts and 1569 micro-posts written since I rebooted this site from scratch.

2019-12-19 08:40 #

TIL about Mailfence, which looks like a great alternative to Fastmail, with similar prices but hosted in Belgium. (via Irreal)