Why not visit the Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum, it’s just a click away. http://smbx.org/
Category: Coding
Embedded Lisp
Dmitry Frank shows how to use embedded Lisp. Let’s Run Lisp on a Microcontroller http://dmitryfrank.com/articles/lisp_on_mcu Unfortunately I have no idea about the hardware stuff shown there. Too bad.
Introduction to Prolog
Bernardo Pires has written a nice intro to Prolog if you do not have much time. Try logic programming! A gentle introduction to Prolog https://bernardopires.com/2013/10/try-logic-programming-a-gentle-introduction-to-prolog/
Latency
Latency numbers every programmer should know https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375 Nice overview of a table originally by Peter Norvig.
(spacemacs)
Just found “A community-driven Emacs distribution”. (spacemacs) http://spacemacs.org/ Emacs and Vim live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my keyboard, oh Lord, why don’t we?
Greyglers
After reading the following article, More software engineers over age 40 may join a lawsuit against Google https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/more-software-engineers-over-age-195308179.html I still don’t know if Google supports software engineers over age 40, or not.
Old Programmers
If you are an old programmer, meaning over 40, I recommend the following article from Ben Northrop to you. Reflections of an “Old” Programmer http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2016/reflections-of-an-old-programmer.php Make sure you read the comments too. People over 60 and still programming. Whoa. I just feel old when working at […]
Fun or silence?
GeekWire has an interesting article about developer workplaces. Joel Spolsky recommends private offices or home office for developers to concentrate over fun places with ping-pong and lounges. Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky http://www.geekwire.com/2016/just-shut-let-devs-concentrate-programming-expert-advises/amp/ I prefer silence […]
Quote of the Day
“The best way to satisfy users is sometimes to ignore them.” -Donald Norman
Music theory for nerds
This is an interesting article about the intersection of computers, mathematics and music. Music theory for nerds https://eev.ee/blog/2016/09/15/music-theory-for-nerds/ I wish I could understand all this.
Emacs 25.1 has been released
As announced on emacs-devel mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-09/msg00451.html “Highlights of this release include: Emacs can now load shared/dynamic libraries (modules) Experimental support for Cairo drawing Enhanced network security (TLS/SSL certificate validity and the like) New minor mode ‘electric-quote-mode’ for using curved quotes as you type Character […]
Intel Distribution for Python
On September 8, 2016, Intel announced the first product release of Intel® Distribution for Python. https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2016/09/08/intel-distribution-for-python Intel supports Python to make it utilize latest processor tricks for big data / data science.
Happy Day of the Programmer
Today is the day. Let’s celebrate the Day of the Programmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Programmer
Tim Bray on Fixing JSON
Some time ago, Tim Bray started a Fixing JSON conversation in his blog. It’s an interesting conversation and you might want to have a look at it. Fixing JSON https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/08/20/Fixing-JSON The Fixing-JSON Conversation https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/08/22/Fixing-JSON-Redux I definitely vote for comments in JSON! 🙂