This series isn’t periodical at all. It’ll come out whenever I have enough of them accumulated over time.

  • Famous hotel signs. If I recall correctly this is linked from a Hacker News discussion on… something linguistics. The rest of the posts on this site are equally funny though.

  • Mozart2 and Clean. Two languages linked from The Lisp Curse post for containing novel and desirable features, being not Lisps (and thus not the /most powerful thing ever/) yet still everyone can learn from.

  • Two discussions on parsing from the Oils shell project.

    For the ambitious compiler writers who like to reuse their parsing infrastructure for editor tooling as well. See the HN and reddit links, there are some interesting back and forth in there too.

    A few other descendent links that may be interesting and hard to find:

  • A rather interesting project that tries to do what my WinXInputEmu does, but with remote thread code execution to patch out system functions instead of doing DLL hijacking. Looks much more featureful and much /much/ more complicated (likely unnecessarily).

  • Pair of twin articles on libraries and open access.

    All publishers (money!!?!?) and libraries (out of control) and readers (difficulty in accessing) hates electronic journals. A different route: stop doing the storage, stop trying to emulate physical paper electronically — produce PDF or whatever, send to customers, done. Let the libraries take care of the website and everything just like how they take care of printed materials. Maintain a minimal internal archive, suddenly a lot of cost and product leakage_ concerns are gone.

    One notable descendant, what are libraries for (out of the many in there):

  • For what is anything but a tool?

  • Yet another pamphlet (and fortunately, not a treatise) on dependencies.