Because there are more continents on the planet than Europe. And sometimes we need to escape from such imperialism.

An updated version of the lovely solid book.

A short and sweet blogpost walking through some of the basics of the spritely institute’s goblins, an actor-based paradigm.

Tny is a little console. You know, these things with a screen and a controller where you play games? Right, so it’s that, but very basic. In fact, it’s so basic that the size of its screen is only 16 by 16 pixels, its controller only has arrow keys and two buttons and its game cartridge memory is 256 bytes maximum. Oh and it doesn’t have any sound or color.

For performatives to actually “perform,” both speaker and audience must accept certain assumptions about the speech act.  These assumptions are called felicity conditions and are often divided into three categories: essential conditions, sincerity conditions, and preparatory conditions.

This is a useful cheatsheet when paired with the paper Elephant 2000

A Lodash-style Go library based on Go 1.18 Generics (map, filter, contains, find…)

Making effective decisions about the inside of your software systems

One of the key obstacles that the GDS team is currently tackling is the lack of consistency in government when it comes to what a good form looks like. The team is currently exploring ways that they can give civil servants the tools they need to enable best practice and make it easy to create online, accessible forms. One area that GDS is currently looking to support best practice is autofill - a function that will allow the end user to move on to the next question as quickly and seamlessly as possible.

I’ve really come to appreciate that performance isn’t just some property of a tool independent from its functionality or its feature set. Performance — in particular, being notably fast — is a feature in and of its own right, which fundamentally alters how a tool is used and perceived.

We propose encoding a 16-bit string as a proquint of alternating consonants and vowels as follows. Four-bits for consonants, and two-bits for vowels:0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F | 0 1 2 3b d f g h j k l m n p r s t v z | a i o uSeparate proquints using dashes, which can go un-pronounced or be pronounced “eh”.

As a Jewish creator whose work is directly inspired by Jewish magic & mysticism, I’m asked all the time how I learned about these traditions - particularly by other Jews who grew up, as I did, without any awareness of this side of Judaism. As a queer, trans & disabled Jew, I’ve found that I connect most deeply with spiritual practices that have (both historically and currently) often been marginalized even within Jewish cultures.

Interaciion nets generalise Girard’s proof nets of linear logic and illustrate the advantage of an inte- grated logic approach, as opposed to the external one. In other words, we did not try to design a logic de- scribing the behaviour of some given computational system, but a programming language for which the type discipline is already (almost) a logic.

One of the relatively little-discussed phenomena in the social critique of AI is the fact that it is not only a centralizing technology, but also one that increases the distance between people and the power of the owners of the coordinating infrastructure. Of course, there is no direct determinism of the infrastructure, but it matters in which way the playing field is tilted.

Janet occupies a really valuable niche: it is a small, simple language that is actually usable. It has an elegant simplicity that you might associate with someone’s hobby project, but you can actually run it on Windows. It has built-in concurrency and multithreading, and it is an excellent language for text-wrangling, thanks to the native support for parsing expression grammars (think regular expressions, but better). It has a simple C FFI, so the package ecosystem is “all of them,” as long as you’re willing to write a few lines of binding code first. And thanks to the lightweight runtime, it’s very easy to use Janet as an embedded scripting language.

Have you ever asked yourself the question, when was the last moment along the rise of the Third Reich when a Jewish person or family could emigrate from Germany with only the usual amount of fuss? You should. It’s a good question to ask. After all, emigration has always been hard, expensive, time consuming, and fraught; but then, with the rise of the Nazis, it got harder and harder, and then became impossible.

nfinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser.Pick any version of System Software/Mac OS from the 1980s or 1990s and run it (and major software of that era) within a virtual machine. Files can imported and exported using drag and drop, and System 7 and onward have more advanced integrations as well – refer to the welcome screen in each machine for more details.

RetroV (pronounced “retro vee”) is a virtual DOM (VDOM) rendering library. It is “vanilla” JavaScript, browser-native, and has no dependencies or build system.

Sabbath mode is an important feature for the people who rely on it. It is also not a very well-known feature.The same parallel can be drawn for many assistive technology features. Every major operating system has multiple accessibility features built into them, but many of these features are obscure and only known by people who rely on them.

The classic “everything is a remix” series of videos as one giant long video.

A monster making tool from the one and only zens.