Josef “Jeff” Sipek

2016-05-01

The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment

Needs washed — A (strange) regional syntactic construct.

The Inside Story of an Aid Worker’s Secret Weapon: The Tarp

3L: The Operating System for the Future — An OS written in Scheme.

Dear Headhunters… — Joerg Moellenkamp’s rant directed at headhunters.

Princeton University Computer Architecture — Computer architecture course from Princeton offered through Coursera.

Glendix — Plan 9 userspace on top of the Linux kernel.

awk-raycaster — Pseudo-3D shooter written completely in awk using raycasting.

2015-09-01

Wikipedia article: Interchange — This definitely reminds me of xkcd: Highway Engineer Pranks. At the same time, it is fascinating how there is a whole set of standard interchanges.

DxOMark — Very in-depth reviews of SLR lenses and bodies.

Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software — Reading this has rekindled my interest in Lisp and Scheme.

This Man Has Been Trying to Live Life as a Goat

What’s going on with a Python assignment puzzle — As a C programmer, this is totally counter-intuitive to me.

Internet Mainframes Project — Screenshots of Wikipedia article: 3270 login screens of tons of internet facing mainframes.

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

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