The Jargon File (version 4.4.7): H: holy wars
On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace
Open Source Migrates With Emotional Distress
The Devil's DP Dictionary
Lua-Style-Guide/README.md at 7112321176dff1e2d1b97765c9801e83495b8797 • Luarocks/lua-Style-Guide
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years: Appendix: Language Choice
The Google SRE Handbook: Chapter 4—Service Level Objectives
GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
GPT-3 Creative Fiction § Prompts As Programming
https://www.yitay.net/blog/training-great-llms-entirely-from-ground-zero-in-the-wilderness
GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry
Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
Software Engineering at Google
Systemd, 10 Years Later: a Historical and Technical Retrospective
I just realized that systemd has already infected Solaris
https://web.archive.org/web/20150525235536/http://www.bloodbathsoftworks.com/xylemon/xlennart.php
Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning
Of a Happy Life: Book 3
C++ in Coders at Work
Be Nice, At Least Until You Can Coordinate Meanness
Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement
Bitcoin Is Worse Is Better
Choosing Software
Resilient Haskell Software
Predicting Google closures
In Defense of Inclusionism
Wikipedia and Other Wikis
On Having Enough Socks
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab
Common Lisp: The Untold Story
‘The Most Important Scarce Resource Is Legitimacy’, Vitalik Buterin
Keep Your Identity Small
Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0578675862/
Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You
Why Johnny Won’t Upgrade
Never Update Anything
Tripping over the potholes in too many libraries
Strategy Letter III: Let Me Go Back!
Forking Protocol: Why, When, and How to Fork an Open Source Project
Moving Google toward the Mainline
Decide on Core Principles against Which to Judge Breaking Changes #12 § Simon Mar Comment
The Value of In-House Expertise
The Economics of Programming Languages
Hyrum’s Law: An observation on Software Engineering
Steve Losh
We Invested 10% to Pay Back Tech Debt; Here's What Happened
On Endings: Why & How We Retired Elm at Culture Amp
Why Software Ends up Complex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35945941
Finally. #embed
My Resignation Letter As R7RS-Large Chair
Daylight Saving Choice
https://startuphustlenews.com/p/my-20-year-career-is-technical-debt
The Dollars and Sense of Continuing Education
https://gigamonkeys.com/flowers/
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000606.html
How Doom Didn't Kill the Amiga
Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale
I Love Building a Startup in Rust. I Wouldn't Pick It Again.
https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/
Keynote: Linus Torvalds in Conversation With Dirk Hohndel
This Post Is Not About Python
The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter
Be Careful About What You Dislike
20 Years of Git. Still Weird, Still Wonderful. [Worse Is Better]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23753477
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38161743