PROGRAMMING

• Terence Tao: Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values. I only made it a few pages in, but I feel privileged to share the same universe as this guy, and that conjecture.
• Weirdo the cat-killing superchicken.
• Sandi Metz, who is an excelling programming writer, once came up with four rules for object-oriented programming. I've been more-or-less trying to stick to them for a while now. Good or not good?
• I'm obsessed with movies that can be edited down to less than three minutes without losing any plot points or characterization. Someone managed do the same to the entire run of the Sopranos.
• Tom Hanks MegaFacts. Includes him rapping while doing a Harry Morgan impression??
• John Waters has been releasing a list of his favourite movies of the year every year for two decades. Watching these is a new life goal.

Q: › Change the grammar to recognise operators written in textual format 'add', 'sub', 'mul', 'div'.

A:

"                                                   \
number   : /-?[0-9]+/ ;                             \
operator : 'add' | 'sub' | 'mul' | 'div';           \
expr     : <number> | '(' <operator> <expr>+ ')' ;  \
lispy    : /^/ <operator> <expr>+ /$/ ;             \
"

• Need a book to read? Try Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter. Amazon also recommended 'git commit murder'.
• Dynamic projection mapping is cooler than I could possibly describe in words.
• Yoda is supposed to be just a normal guy (by George Lucas).
• British TV in the 60s is completely inexplicable. Here is couple elderly, enthusiastic men playing a wacky version of Bye Bye Blues on a mellotron.
• The first step to building an irl holodeck. It looks really pretty.
• A JS library to generate graphs that look like they were cutely sketched by hand.

Q: Change the grammar to add a new operator such as '%'.

A:

"                                                   \
number   : /-?[0-9]+/ ;                             \
operator : '+' | '-' | '*' | '/' | '%';             \
expr     : <number> | '(' <operator> <expr>+ ')' ;  \
lispy    : /^/ <operator> <expr>+ /$/ ;             \
"

I try not to post too many videos in weekly links, which means I now have a huge backlog of videos. Enjoy.

• Deeply artificial trees. Super disturbing and you must click on it.
• Classic Taiwanese children's show in Minnan. The most impressive and dramatic puppet violence you will ever see.
• Ancient Clickhole Of The Week: Share This On Portugal’s Facebook Page To Let Them Know They Had A Good Run But It’s Time To Call It Quits.
• The Mellotron was an early 60s synthesizer with an eerie sound that was used in Strawberry Fields, among others. Watch this super interesting video where an awesome mechanical genius shows the inner workings of a Mellotron she repaired.
• Werner Herzog narrates a cute cat video.
• The world's largest Ocarina.

• Someone must have hacked the BBC news website, because they did two entire stories that weren't about tweets: Rod Stewart's cool-as-hell model train set and The Comedy Wildlife Awards.
• GNOME is refusing to settle with a patent troll, on principle. If you can, give them money before cokeheads use loopholes in legal systems to end the golden age of technological progress we are currently living it.
• I think Inuktitut is the most beautiful language I've ever heard. I used to watch the nightly news in Inuktitut, not because I understood a single word, but because the host's especially-beautiful voice was hypnotic. Here's a career highlight reel from when she retired.
• The 6502 is a legendary processor that was used in the NES, Commodore 64, Apple II, and countless others (not to mention close-derivatives). It's also still the best way to learn Assembly, because it is relatively straightforward. Visual 6502 Circuit Webapp.
• Ancient Clickhole of the Week: 6 Of The Biggest Differences Between The British Version Of ‘The Office’ And The Zapruder Film.
• Real places that look like drawings are an Internet staple, and I love them.

Q: Write a regular expression matching pit, pot and respite but not peat, spit, or part.

A:

# This works, but is a weird answer to a weird exercise.
/(^|res)p[io]/

• A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages.
• Ancient Clickhole Corner: Now That Univision Isn’t Our Corporate Owner Anymore, We’re Free To Rip Into Their Dumbass Logo.
• Business Card Stylophone.
• The Greatest Vapourware Story Of All Time. Probably the second-most expensive video game ever made, still in alpha, years behind schedule, and the developers posted a picture on Instagram of their new $20,000 coffee machine.
• Another great old Joe Armstrong article: Minimum Viable Program.
• I had always heard that Americans don't have Smarties, which seems weird. It turns out they also don't have ketchup chips, cream soda crush, or Coffee Crisp, which makes me understand why they elected Trump: if my life was that horrible, I would also want to destroy my own country.

• An article about Theodore de Bry, an extremely talented Netherlandish/Belgianish artist who did dozens of engravings of the New World without ever having been there.
• Every six months or so I find myself watching Bernie Mac's performance on Def Comedy Jam (NSFW). Even though the jokes aren't really that funny, it's one of the great stand up performances of all time.
• Hyper-negative ancient Sumerian creation myth (NSFW).
• Seanbaby spent what I imagine was hundreds of hours finding weird things in pre-code horror comic books (NSFWish).
• You might have seen a clickbaitish Youtube video or the like saying that 1+2+3... = -1/12. Here's an article dealing with a lot of the math around that in a pretty simple way, with a link to Terence Tao's more hardcore, scary, NSFW explanation at the end.
• A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages.