PROGRAMMING

Someone made an unbelievably-beautiful Conway's Game of Life machine.

In CSS, easing is not just for transitions.

Very interesting size/speed/system call benchmarks for 'Hello World' in a number of languages. 'Hello World' might seem trivial and non-comprehensive, but the results are extremely surprising and enlightening.

Voxel Space: an interesting article about a major leap in 90s computer graphics. Lots of pretty pictures to help demonstrate.

I talked about De Stijl yesterday. Piet is a programming language whose programs can look like De Stijl paintings, although you can see from the samples that people have created all kinds of patterns, like the giant red circle that calculates an approximation of Pi, or the 'Hello World' that looks like the world.

Better network usage visualization for the console

Fun with Ruby

• Remember when Rosanne got Tom Arnold his own show? A very tongue-in-cheek ad for the show, followed by Stephen King advertising the new Dark Tower book.
• A Tumblr entirely dedicated to anti-Riker memes. Reading it through, I get the feeling that the maintainer doesn't actually hate Riker at all!
• On a related note, what are the chances that the new Picard show's secret plot twist is time travel and/or time travelling into the other timeline's past? Star Trek's last non-prequel was eighteen years ago and they've now got countless prequels-to-prequels. They seem pretty committed to being prequel-only at this point.
• In my opinion, the greatest - or at least greatest looking - web comic of all time is A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible, which was active in the 00s. The illustrator later did the artwork for the game Braid.
• Some extremely brave scientists in India blog about researching King Cobra nests.
• The Ten C Commandments. Not to be confused with the Biggie Smalls song.

Q: Change the grammar to recognize decimal numbers such as 0.01, 5.21, or 10.2.

A:

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