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Been getting into Rudy Rucker, who was funded by the AutoCAD folks to do cellular automata research: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/ . Autodesk funded some really interesting proj…

I recently stumbled across John Walker's awesome old website. What a gem of personality and interests: https://www.fourmilab.ch/. What's your favorite website made by a programmer …

Trevor Paglen had a similar project for US military SIGINT. It's interesting how much more "serious" the Russian insignias are than the US patches. I have a few pictures here: http…

The web browser app paradigm changed everything. The Windows API isn't nearly as important as it once was.

I don't understand why this would be different than the Microsoft Office/LibreOffice situation. Adoption has been really slow in Europe (though it is happening - to the credit of E…

This is also what landed with me.

The issues we experiment with are usually quite broad - improvements to logging, routing - but the implementation is always more narrow. Still, it seems like there is still more ro…

Yeah - we're doing something like one-on-ones that drive these explorations. Maybe we need to make the "20%" more formal. The real missing part is discussed in the "knowledge build…

I'd like to encourage more domain exploration on our small team. A dev in the current flow implements a solution and deploys to production with guardrails (feature flags, admin pri…

I haven't enjoyed the ecosystem of text editors on the web as much as I have local apps. HackMD was really hitting the sweet spot of simplicity and shareability. I'll give it a sho…

Ah nice tip. Will put it on the reading list!

Sharing this seems like an appropriate way of commemorating David Kahn's passing ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39233855 ). <3

It's astonishing (and sad) how few opportunities exist for basic research.

Before folks jump on the business model aspect, one should keep in mind that many (all?) online communities go through a similar growth curve. Wikipedia included. But this article …