Welcome to the virtual realm of Christian Neukirchen. I like math, Unix, minimalism and the Internet. You may be interested in what I write at my two blogs, chris ...
Monopoly Is Theft , “The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game”. By Christopher Ketcham. A Brainfuck interpreter written in the C preprocessor , proving its Turing-completness. Readable Programs , Luke Gorrie: “I love readable programs. I mean: programs that yo...
Baking Pi: Operating Systems Development , how to program the Pi in assembler. RaspCherry Pi , surely would fit into a Model M, too. Protological Control: an Introduction , by Steve Klabnik. Marshall is a programming language for exact real arithmetic based on ideas from Abstract Ston...
A New HTTP Status Code for Legally-restricted Resources , it’s 451 of course. SipHash: a fast short-input PRF , by Jean-Philippe Aumasson and Daniel J. Bernstein. “Target applications include network traffic authentication and hash-table lookups protected against hash-flooding denials...
Oregon Programming Languages Summer School: Logic, Languages, Compilation, and Verification , excellent talk recordings and other material is online. An argument against call/cc , by Oleg Kiselyov: “The primitive call/cc is a bad abstraction […] and its capture of the continuation of ...
Eagle Scouts stand up to the Boy Scouts of America , “Now due to the recent decision by the National Council to uphold its policy on banning gays from participating or volunteering in Scouts, I can no longer support the Boy Scouts of America. I am returning my Eagle Scout rank and Ord...
27may2012 Interrogations , frightening photographs by Donald Weber. An Interactive Tutorial of the Sequent Calculus , by Edward Z. Yang. Engelbart’s Violin , “Conventional wisdom in the technology community holds that the personal computer revolution gave everyone access to profession...
German court rules child’s religious circumcision can be a criminal offence FREE PUSSY RIOT! , “At time of writing, the women have spent 117 days in jail, with the trial postponed for months longer.” goomwwm is an X11 window manager implemented in C as a cleanroom software project. It...
My Git Habits , by Mark J. Dominus. Quite individual, but very thoughtful. The Man Who Broke Atlantic City , “Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino.” Exciting. The Bisexualit...
