An old TED Talk: The puzzle of motivation:
- Autonomy
- Mastery
- Purpose
Category Archives: Chatter
Alda for music programming
Alda is a text-based programming language for music composition. Interesting!
Voice/SIP
There’s lots to know about Voice/SIP for VoIP.
Unicode Regular Expressions
Found some good info on Unicode in regular expressions: Unicode Regular Expressions. Particularly some good doco about Unicode Categories and how to indicate them in regular expressions.
Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
Via HN today: Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work. TL;DR: Misaligned profit motives. Wish I had time to read more than the tl;dr.
Knuth on reusable code
Today via Lobsters: APL Style: Patterns/Anti-patterns:
I also must confess to a strong bias against the fashion for
reusable code. To me, “re-editable code” is much, much better
than an untouchable black box or toolkit. I could go on and on
about this. If you’re totally convinced that reusable code is
wonderful, I probably won’t be able to sway you anyway, but
you’ll never convince me that reusable code isn’t mostly a
menace.— Donald Knuth, Interview with Andrew Binstock
What problems do people solve with strace?
This via r/programming today: What problems do people solve with strace?
How To Win At Tech Publishing
From How To Win At Tech Publishing:
If, however, you’ve accumulated a lot of research on a personal topic and want to gather the threads together and reach some personal conclusions, long-form non-fiction is probably the only tool that’s going to work, whether you publish or not.
Simple things are complicated: making a show password option
An interesting article today: Simple things are complicated: making a show password option. It referenced Government Design Principles: Make things open: it makes things better which I thought was an interesting and sensible government policy…
The Bourne shell and Bash aren’t the right languages for larger programs
Today I read The Bourne shell and Bash aren’t the right languages for larger programs. It linked to this DKMS script which was interesting. TIL: ‘readonly’ in BASH.