My shared links for April 5th through April 6th: Why I still program – "I believe that the rejection of programming as a lower activity can be explained by the Theory of the leisure class. In effect, we do not seek utility but prestige. There is no prestige in tool-making, cooking or farming. To maximize [...]

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My shared links for April 4th: Stuart’s “Law of Networkdynamics” – Flattr – Social micropayments – An interesting model that I hadn't heard of. You set a monthly amount to spend and when you see a flattr button, you click on it. They then divide your monthly amount among the people you clicked on that [...]

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My shared links for March 30th through April 3rd: Magic Maps: Now You See It. – Very cool app for working with maps and time series data How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Shows the best way to sort by positive/negative rankings that is robust to small sample sizes terrorism hardly existential threat. [...]

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My shared links for March 18th through March 26th: 7 Years of YouTube Scalability Lessons in 30 Minutes – Notes from a PyCon talk about the very pragmatic design philosophy at YouTube. bkad/discoball · GitHub – shell tool to match and colorize lines of text The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Developer's Code – How to see [...]

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My shared links for March 5th through March 17th: CodeMirror – "CodeMirror is a JavaScript library that can be used to create a relatively pleasant editor interface for code-like content ― computer programs, HTML markup, and similar. If a mode has been written for the language you are editing, the code will be coloured, and [...]

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My shared links for March 1st through March 5th: python – Does PyPY translate itself? – Stack Overflow – An informative answer about how PyPy works On reviewing research papers « Lars Bergstrom – So, PL has a culture of really useful reviews, huh? How to Do What You Love – "If you think something's [...]

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My shared links for February 27th through March 1st: Pretty Lisp | Hacker News I don’t like this. Great comment thread though – lots of people agree with me. I think maybe enthusiasm for structure editors is a sign of youthful optimism and inexperience. 2004 Rob Pike Q&A Interview – Slashdot – "(And speaking of [...]

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My shared links for February 23rd: Strategic Frugality If you’re just starting to build a… – where you can skimp! Dealing with Crap apps in the catalog… – chuq on the tough problem of policing app stores. JSLint,The JavaScript Code Quality Tool – From Douglas Crockford JavaScript Lint – Jison – javascript bison with a [...]

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My shared links for February 21st through February 22nd: http://xpra.org/ (Wayland – Beyond X (The H) [LWN.net]) – a 'screen' for X exists. A SCREEN FOR X EXISTS!! A client-side Bayes classifier for Hacker News – Japomatik – Very cool idea. I'd like to see if I can bend it to my purposes – flag [...]

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My shared links for February 7th through February 9th: Effective Scala – Video lectures for 6.851, advanced data structures – Prof. Erik Demaine's 6.851 lectures recorded with synchronized lecture notes. tobami/codespeed – GitHub – Python and django performance monitoring tool. Used for speed.pypy.org Experiences with an Icon-like Expression Evaluation System – Interesting and accessible trip [...]

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