unalog

beautiful photo

This looks really good. Look for the "3-minute test" link, and test your strength!

"Today, it all seems too late. The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr, but the feeling isn't mutual. Flickr isn't even among the top 50 free photography apps in iTunes. It's just below an Instagram clone in 64th place. By way of comparison, an app that adds cats with laser eyes to your photos is 23rd. If you can't beat laser cat, you probably deserve to die."

"OpenStax College offers students free textbooks that meet scope and sequence requirements for most courses. These are peer-reviewed texts written by professional content developers."

open-source freshman-level textbook on data structures; CC license; source hosted on github.

"Don't let anyone fool you. Today was a major victory for Google."

they're back!

thx ksclarke (on G+)

interesting, thx dchud

This looks like a great basis for a creative-coding project. [edit: Windows and Mac only, that's unfortunate.]

great read (and well illustrated!)

"Perf is a profiler tool for Linux 2.6+ based systems that abstracts away CPU hardware differences in Linux performance measurements and presents a simple commandline interface. Perf is based on the perf_events interface exported by recent versions of the Linux kernel."

"UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions without burning a CD. It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X."

I did not know this: python -mjson.tool < messy.json > pretty.json

very cool live-coding demo

via @artunit

Pretty cool navigation mode for Emacs, will have to try. Vim users: it's similar to something called EasyMotion.

Bartosz Milewski, a minor legendary figure in C++ circles, switching to Haskell.

feel good flashmob story

nice idea, sort of mixing cron and event-driven programming.

mmm those look good

yet another language that I will have to spend too much time investigating

Bill C-30 lives.

I wish our municipal government were so forward-thinking.

Patrick Walton (Rust developer), contrasting the current state of the Rust and Go projects against Jonathan Shapiro's recent post-mortem analysis for the BitC language project.

I could so see this happening.