DockerSlim: Minify and Secure Your Docker Containers.

How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time in 2019. #rust

The origin of CAR and CDR in LISP. #lisp

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables.

  The Cars, Candy-O.

A cons is really just a 2-tuple, and the halves don’t have any particular meaning on their own, even as “head” and “tail.” However, maybe this is really important to you so you want to do it anyway. What’s the best way to go about it? — Efficient Alias of a Built-In Emacs Lisp Function

Most weblogs are unfunded, spare-time ventures, yet most webloggers update their sites five days a week, and some even work on weekends! — Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook

Computational Photography From Selfies to Black Holes.

L-systems.

shrynk - Using Machine Learning to learn how to Compress. Interesting discussion on how to combine flat structured files (e.g. data frames) using fastparquet, pyarrow or CSV + compression (TL;DR csv+bz2 is the definitive winner). #python