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(mita would really like sacha, I think)

A low-level static programming language designed to integrate seamlessly with Lua, and using Lua as its metaprogramming language. Interesting!

"make your own games by learning javascript programming"

A starting point for a series on category theory. Some of the math in the author's articles goes whooshing over my head; but he's tried hard to write approachable introductions to several mathematical topics that have application in programming.

Please don't share with any managers who have broken satire detectors. :)

[Video]. "This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious."

This would be a nice feature to have... eliminating intermediate tables would be nice, but I think the real bonus is being able to constrain the number of relations in a *-to-many relationship (e.g. a group must have exactly N members) without resorting to triggers.

I hadn't heard of Postgres-XC before...

Android app: turns up the ringer volume after X missed calls from the same number within Y minutes. Clever. :)

"A fresh take on music notation — easier to learn, faster to read, and simpler for even the trickiest music."

like Chrome's Audit, but with more...

Site of the presenter of the "Breaking the 1000ms" video I posted earlier. And damn, his site is fast...

instant micro-optimizations for some LaTeX documents.

Sad. Siskel and Ebert were my gateway-drug to PBS when I was young.

Regarding the Postgres security issue I mentioned a while back... The vulnerability has a rather narrow vector, but it can lead to arbitrary code execution; so, update.

Interesting looking tool!

Asm.js is maybe the coolest project of the moment.

Not ready for prime time yet, but they're making great progress.

Like Project Euler, but for bioinformatics, and with a Python basis.

A serious PostgreSQL exploit has been discovered; get ready to upgrade your PG servers in the next week or two.

I thought it was going to be the list of "latencies everyone should know," but he links through to that... this is a list of algorithms, and at which N's you should stop using them.

(Using R).

I haven't worked on on a windows machine in years, but it turns out that the Command Prompt window is still awful! This looks like an improvement.

much better than I expected on buzzfeed. :) thx dan.

"MediaGoblin is a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc."

Oooh. I want two of these, and then I will be a wizard.

"Today’s example is the SocialSite REST API. That is RPC. It screams RPC. There is so much coupling on display that it should be given an X rating."

Excellent, simple catalogue of computer science learning resources. I think they are all videos, but I only tried a couple links.

I always thought that using Emacs to read your mail was sort of lame. But I've been test-driving mu4e, and it's awesome. I was using Thunderbird; now I'm using Emacs with mu4e, and offlineimap (which is also awesome!) for mail synchronization. Now I have great offline mail, and a crazy-fast text-based interface. I still need to tweak spam filtering, address books, and some other adjustments to mu4e, but overall it's working for me. (A shout-out to Unalog, the discerning gentleman's microblogging platform.)

"Ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more took time out to dress up their favourite worst feedback from clients, transforming quotes that would normally give you a twitch, into a diverse collection of posters. "