A “Smart Disorganized” Tech Blog

  • SqueekNOS

    SqueekNOS is a project to create an operating-systemless Smalltalk. Ie. one where the Smalltalk machine replaces most of the operating system (apart from a small kernel I guess). The nice thing about this : everything is inspectable / hackable. All the way down.

  • CoffeeScript

    Just a note. I am really, really liking CoffeeScript now. It’s reminding me both of freedom that Python gave me when I first turned to it after Java. And bit of my experience with Erlang. ( If only it had Erlang’s Actor model and pattern matching arguments … ) The other good effect of this,…

  • Programming in Go

    Very interesting video about how to program with Go language.

  • Horizontal Applications And Popular Data Structures

    Joel Spolsky : “The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures.”

  • WaveFlavours

    So, slight Christmas / New Year’s diversion from my main projects – I’ve been writing a wave-table synth in the last few days. Code (C++ using Maximilian) is here. The main thing I’m doing is to have two wave-tables for a voice, and then slowly swap sample points between them to get a long-term evolution…

  • Chicago Boss

    Very nice looking Erlang web-framework.

  • UI Stencils

    Clever idea. Stencils for UI designers. Guess you can make your own with a laser-cutter.

  • Defending Lean Startups

    Got into a long comment on Nick Pelling’s blog. He’s sceptical about Eric Ries. I’m fairly neutral, but here’s my response to Nick. Surely all practical knowledge is anecdotal and, therefore, an unwarranted step from the particular to the universal. All advice in this “genre” (Tom Peters, Charles Handy, Seth Godin etc. etc. etc. )…

  • HackerType

    Possibly one of the more hilariously idiotic things I ever saw online. Impress your friends with fake coding skills. WTF?????

  • Teach Programming In Schools

    A petition to the UK government.

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