Celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy causes an existential crisis by quoting a hoax author.
Why do we call programming languages “languages”? What is missing from the literary traditions of programming?
Learning how to forget the properties of programming languages themselves, and think about the context of what is actually written in these languages.
“If you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good?”
The diaries of George Orwell are now being published in blog format by The Orwell Prize. The diaries begin in August 1938 and cover the period up until October 1942. They're being timed to appear…
The abnihilization of the etym by . . . the first lord of Hurtreford expolodotonates through Parsuralia with an ivanmorinthorrorumble fragoromboassity amidwhiches general uttermost confussion are…
Jon Udell’s literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database is flush with small details that will delight history geeks.
So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and…