Those plots are beautiful, but I have a hard time interpreting them. They are clearly less messy than the "hairballs" they replace, so maybe it's just a literacy issue on my end (I don't often study big network graphs).
Graphic novel trilogy about the county I'm in right now! The author just released another graphic novel called "Underwater Welder" which sounds spooky and fun.
This is an interesting idea. Run a program under a tracing monitor that determines what libraries, config files, etc., your program needs; it then packages all those bits up together into a coherent "package," essentially a static distribution of your program. It seems like a shotgun approach to dependency management, but it might actually work well!
A description of how Redis deals with crash reports (tl;dr: very thoroughly!). In a Reddit discussion (http://redd.it/13vmik), this led to Phusion Passenger's crash-reporting code, which is even more thorough. This is gold-standard stuff for crash-report handling in low-level programs.
"That moment will be significant not just because it will signal the end of one more human niche, but because it will signal the beginning of another: the era in which it will no longer be optional for machines to have ethical systems."
Surprise, there is at least one blog devoted (mostly) to unusual marginalia in medieval manuscripts. Dogs storming castles, horses riding people, and all that good stuff. Oh, and scary demon coconut heads.
I have some box plots to render, and was going to do them in R... but ooh, this does look nice. (Belated thx to dchud, who I think has posted d3 to unalog a couple times.)