"I thought commercial applications would be more rewarding. But since then I’ve met too many people who want to make a career out of a project instead of completing it. That’s life." - Chuck Moore, original Forth author

"The computer world is not just technicality and razzle-dazzle.  It is a continual war over software politics and paradigms." - XANADU®

Linux vs. Bullshit linuxjournal.com/content/linux-…

@sustrik thanks for nanomsg, great philosophy

Bertrand Russell’s message to future generations goo.gl/RwSEsG

@laurenbastide excellent, de côté pour la cousinade ?

I tend to believe that the fewer roles a component has the better it is. Then ability to compose several pieces together at will is Freedom.

Wow ! I like the way Docker is extending prototypal inheritance to storage, thanks to AuFS, saving tons of GBs + fast snapshotting !!

Sometimes the divide and conquer v.s. holistic strategy does not apply well and makes you loose track of the whole picture of your problem

Less is always more. Fantastic old lego ad by Blattner Brunner.

Dan Meyer The effect of pencil-and-paper programmers outperforming programmers-at-a-computer is no doubt real, and...

DOOM E1M1 on dot matrix printer: vimeo.com/87897979

Stone balancing gravityglue.com video demo vimeo.com/105399768 kinesthetic intelligence gravityglue.com/about/ via @mokeymuffin

The Sun. Seen with eyes we've built ourselves. Astronomy Picture of the Day #SDO #NASA

Someday, BTW, OMG, and WTF might be seen like "N.B.", "e.g.", and "sic" are today -- relics of a more formal era, academic, slightly stuffy.

Code comments

A+ Shadershop, visual reasoning about symbolic functions. So rich, so elegant, so clear. tobyschachman.com/Shadershop/

Wave motion at the surface of water is made up of small circular motions of parcels of water. pic.x.com/m6VSYKCYMF

Minimalism by Peter Bastian: vimeo.com/51000433