Categorie: Links
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Links van 5 tot 7 januari 2026
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story. Ik weet nog precies hoe ik ernaar keek en de toekomst zag. Fantastisch ding. yahoo, pipes The great shift of English prose I propose a different story. The…
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Links van 4 tot 5 januari 2026
Adventure 751 (1980) | Renga in Blue Adventure 751 has been, by my reckoning, the most sought-after variation of Crowther/Woods Adventure. It was generally available on the online portal CompuServe from nearly the beginning of the service and it disappeared when they shut down their games in the 90s. Arthur O’Dwyer started a web page…
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Links van 1 tot 4 januari 2026
Turning 20 while the world turns upside-down | Parv Mahajan I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, lots of jobs will be gone soon. Probably, the smartest thing alive will no longer be human. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re…
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Links van 25 december 2025 tot 1 januari 2026
Knuth: Knight's Tours in Olin Hall Knuth is a national treasure — Knight's tours are one of humankind's earliest known combinatorial patterns. They originated in Kashmir and Persia, about 1200 years ago, and they've had a substantial, continuous history ever since then — first in Asia, then eventually in Europe, and finally in the Americas,…
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Links van 25 december 2025
Exploring Mathematics with Python The heart of this book is Arthur Engel’s 1993 textbook Exploring Mathematics with your Computer which utilizes Turbo Pascal for its exploratory work, and is still available for purchase. The first six chapters (and Appendix A) are essentially that book, but with the programming language changed to Python, some rewording, reformatting…
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Links van 18 tot 24 december 2025
Open Access We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more…
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Links van 14 tot 18 december 2025
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure – Creatures of Thought Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems with personal computers.…
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Links van 7 tot 13 december 2025
rePalm – Dmitry.GR Pixter was quite popular, as far as kids' toys go, in USA in the early 2000s. A friend brought it to my attention a year ago as a potential rePalm target. The screen resolution was right and looking inside a "Pixter Color" showed an ARM SoC – a Sharp LH75411. The device…
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Links van 7 december 2025
What is Generative UI? | tambo blog Generative UI is an interface that adapts in real-time to the user’s context. Their natural language input, their past interactions, system data. Instead of a fixed experience everyone must learn, the software learns to fit what each user needs in the moment. ui, ux, generative UI (4218) Ivan…
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Links van 1 tot 6 december 2025
A vector graphics workstation from the 70s – jaeblog jaeblog In my mind, Tektronix is a brand that makes electronics lab equipment like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Turns out, they made quite a few terminals and a couple of computers! A good friend saw this one for sale local to him, and I poked him…
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Links van 28 november tot 1 december 2025
20 Years of ZBrush… And I'm Blown Away by Nomad Er zijn geen zekerheden meer — "After almost 20 years of using ZBrush, we are giving Nomad a try! This is our first impressions of Nomad after using it for a few weeks. We're covering both the ipad and desktop version of Nomad" 3D, sculpture,…
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Links van 23 tot 28 november 2025
First-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks — School of Medicine University of Louisville <p>Imagine reliving your entire life in the space of seconds. Like a flash of lightning, you are outside of your body, watching memorable moments you lived through. This process, known as “life recall,” can be…
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Links van 18 tot 22 november 2025
State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions · Articles This is a follow-up to my previous article, Terminal Emulators Battle Royale – Unicode Edition! from 2023, in which I documented Unicode support across terminal emulators. Since then, the ucs-detect tool and its supporting blessed library have been extended to automatically detect support of…
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Links van 10 tot 22 oktober 2025
Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework – Neowin Microsoft wants to make Windows 11’s UI framework open-source, and it has shared details about this complex process. UI, microsoft HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML — Acko.net Reinventing the DOM to ditch all legacy baggage could coincide with redesigning it for…
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Links van 30 mei tot 14 juli 2025
What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds beyond Ours—Stephen Wolfram Writings We humans have perhaps 100 billion neurons in our brains. But what if we had many more? Or what if the AIs we built effectively had many more? What kinds of things might then become possible? At 100 billion neurons, we know, for…