{"content":{"id":554,"title":"19-02-17 Weekly Links","body":"\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://ramesaliyev.com/visual-noises/\"\u003eVisual Noise\u003c/a\u003e\r\n\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\nOldie but goodie: \u003ca href=\"http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html\"\u003eA Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages\u003c/a\u003e. Classic programmer humour which is unbelievably just shy of ten years old.\r\n\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Achilles.html\"\u003eA fun article\u003c/a\u003e on Lewis Carroll's \u003ci\u003eWhat the tortoise said to Achilles\u003c/i\u003e. If you haven't, here is the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achilles\"\u003eoriginal\u003c/a\u003e, which is wonderful.\r\n\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://alexanderperrin.com.au/triangles/ballooning/\"\u003eBeautiful hot-air balloon simulator\u003c/a\u003e in the browser, using Three.js. The new golden age \u0026lt;canvass\u0026gt; was supposed to bring us.\r\n\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://breakthelaw.xyz/\"\u003eOverly-broad Internet laws in many countries can result in you unknowingly committing crimes\u003c/a\u003e. If doing stuff is outlawed, only outlaws will do stuff.\r\n\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003e\r\n\u003ca href=\"https://www.jwz.org/blog/\"\u003eJWZ's long-running blog\u003c/a\u003e is the pinnacle of programmer coolness. It's so cool that it \u003ci\u003ecan't\u003c/i\u003e be linked from Hacker News. Mosaic's home page from 1994 is still around and it feature's JWZ's \u003ca href=\"http://home.mcom.com/people/jwz/\"\u003eoriginal, 90s-style homepage\u003c/a\u003e and it is a thing of glory. Back in the 90s, mentioning Kennedy was 4% of the United States GDP.\r\n\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003c/ul\u003e","publication_date":"2019-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","created_at":"2019-02-16T17:38:46.000Z","updated_at":"2019-07-02T14:37:30.000Z","user_id":1,"rating":null},"tags":"\u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=weekly_links\"\u003eweekly_links\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=programming\"\u003eprogramming\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=mathematics\"\u003emathematics\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=randomness\"\u003erandomness\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=logic\"\u003elogic\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=javascript\"\u003ejavascript\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=rumors_on_the_internets\"\u003erumors_on_the_internets\u003c/a\u003e \u003ca class=\"changeable-title\" href=\"/q?tag=nineteenth_century\"\u003enineteenth_century\u003c/a\u003e"}
19-02-17 Weekly Links
- Visual Noise
- Oldie but goodie: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages. Classic programmer humour which is unbelievably just shy of ten years old.
- A fun article on Lewis Carroll's What the tortoise said to Achilles. If you haven't, here is the original, which is wonderful.
- Beautiful hot-air balloon simulator in the browser, using Three.js. The new golden age <canvass> was supposed to bring us.
- Overly-broad Internet laws in many countries can result in you unknowingly committing crimes. If doing stuff is outlawed, only outlaws will do stuff.
- JWZ's long-running blog is the pinnacle of programmer coolness. It's so cool that it can't be linked from Hacker News. Mosaic's home page from 1994 is still around and it feature's JWZ's original, 90s-style homepage and it is a thing of glory. Back in the 90s, mentioning Kennedy was 4% of the United States GDP.