I am attempting to clear my link backlog but not succeeding.
- Deconstructing the Role-Playing Video Game. (via)
- From boiling lead and black art. Veers into UNIX history at the end. (via)
- A Look Back at StripWare.
- Escaping the software tar pit: model clashes and how to avoid them. (via)
- The Programmer Productivity Myth.
- Plan 9 ported to SPARC over a few days.
- More engineering case studies to dive into.
- You can see when Great Britain changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar by typing ‘cal 9 1752’. Just cause time is messy, it’s different for other countries.
- Also, time goes faster on the moon. That’s not a figure of speech.
- Video of Michael W. Lucas’s recent presentation on Run Your Own Mail Server at NYCBUG.
- State of Text Rendering 2024. (via)
- Esquire’s 75 best sci-fi books of all time. Feels clickbaity, but a good list for finding books you may not have read yet. (via)
Re: programmer productivity. This always reminds me of a job interview where I was rejected because my code was clean and correct, but I took too long to write it in the interviewer’s opinion. Unfortunately I was too young and inexperience to articulate the obvious: they’d have saved a lot more time later when my code didn’t need fixing or rewriting. Then again, that’s exactly what the industry doesn’t value. “Move fast and break things”, indeed.