In a perfect world, I imagine a little robot reading everything alongside me. He records the references and key ideas of each piece. After I write a post, he’d comb through my post sentence by sentence, linking every important phrase to its source. — Keep Stuff Linkable

You want to work with a co-worker on a piece of software? If you’re in the same room, sitting at the same table, looking at screens side-by-side, any communication between those two computers is actually happening [by sending signals] across the ocean to some data center, to some other server and then coming back to you. One: that’s crazy. But two, it’s also very slow and expensive and it doesn’t have to be that way. — Offline Is Just Online With Extreme Latency

Back from the old town.

Time to go back watching God’s Crooked Lines.

Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C. #clang

Looks nice: “I like Janet so much that I wrote an entire book about it, and put it on The Internet for free, in the hopes of attracting more Janetors to the language.” — Why Janet?

Common Lisp Tweaks. #lisp

Writing lets me do that while also helping me avoid going around in circles. When thoughts are in my head, it’s easy for them to get jumbled up. I miss things, and I keep coming back to the same thoughts, leading to the unproductive ruminating. But writing my thoughts down stops that process. I am forced to organize my thoughts in a coherent manner and to acknowledge when they don’t make sense. Thoughts in my head are like a mixture of dirty water, while writing is like a filter. It removes the nonsense from my thinking. — Why I Blog

TIL about closing a stale SSH connection.

Farewell @kinkybambou. Even after I left Twitter, I have been following you irregularly to hear from you. I have no words. All of my thoughts to you, Minette, Loulou and Nono.