On method values, part 1

Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2024. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new. also: see the lists from 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 Great posts | articles | talks read/watched ELITE: The game that couldn’t be […]

The Internet Archive currently has digital copies of almost every KAMAS Report, except for vol 2. KAMAS was (is?) early outliner software originally written for the Kaypro line of computers running CP/M. I previously wrote about KAMAS in my 8-bit Spirituals post and have looked for vol. 2 ever since to no avail. If anyone […]

Starting in the late-1960s/early-1970s Elsevier and McDonald teamed up to print a series of computing books under the series “Computer Monographs“. I’ve read a couple and they were both well-written and likely ahead of their time. While looking deeper into the series I learned that 26 volumes in the series were printed, however I cannot […]

Cryptobiosis is a peculiar state of biological organization Automatic bug repair and LLMs Tardigrades and foreign DNA Sussman’s “Evolvability and Robust Design” and the Art of the Propagator. Also look at Sussman and Hanson’s book Software Design for Flexibility: How to Avoid Programming Yourself into a Corner. Deep Specification :F