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An Emacs package development handbook. Built with Emacs, by Emacs package developers, for Emacs package developers.
At first glance, it looks like a list of available/recommended packages ordered by purpose.Fri Feb 26 11:53:57 2021 - permalink -- https://github.com/alphapapa/emacs-package-dev-handbook#xml--html
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History of development and key concepts of Orthodox Editors
The paper by Melinda Varian sounds interesting.Mon Feb 22 13:20:36 2021 - permalink -
Here is the quote from her very interesting paper ( I strongly recommend to read at least the beginning of this 73 pages paper -- it provides new insights into how two most interesting operating system Unix and VM/CMS were influenced by Corbato's CTTS and MIT Multix project)
As of 2021-03, the link http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda/ is stale, but I found the paper (167 pages)
VM AND THE VM COMMUNITY: Past, Present, and Future by Melinda Varian, April, 1991
on http://www.leeandmelindavarian.com/Melinda/neuvm.pdf- http://www.softpanorama.org/Articles/orthodox_editors.shtml
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Unix Philosophy 2020
This document is a compendium of Casper Ti. Vector's thoughts about the Unix philosophy in the contemporary context.Sun Feb 21 18:47:11 2021 - permalink -- https://gitea.com/CasperVector/up2020
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uLisp on M5Stack (ESP32)
Interesting blog, where literature plays an important role.Sat Jan 30 10:45:18 2021 - permalink -
Using an Image Viewer as a Presentation Program, Image Correction in Batch Mode (Using The GIMP) http://blog.matroid.org/display/62- http://blog.matroid.org/display/82
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Arnold Robbins's Home Page
The articles sound interesting, particularly those about Plan 9.Fri Jan 29 14:39:13 2021 - permalink -
So does TexiWeb Jr., a super simple literate programming system built on top of Texinfo and implemented in awk https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/texiwebjr
which is mentioned in
AWK As A Major Systems Programming Language — Revisited
http://www.skeeve.com/awk-sys-prog.html
struct --- Convert Fortran into Ratfor
could be useful for proot:
This is Brenda Baker's struct program. It converts plain old Fortran into Rational Fortran (ratfor). The code here is taken from the TUHS archives, starting with the V7 version, and progressing through V8 and V10.
https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/struct- https://www.skeeve.com/
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systemd isn't safe to run anywhere
The blog has a number of interesting articles, which I only have browsed so far.Sun Jan 24 15:26:09 2021 - permalink -
http://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/keeping-your-home-in-git.html- http://unixsheikh.com/articles/systemd-isnt-safe-to-run-anywhere.html
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Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture - Wikipedia
Sounds like an interesting book. See Keith Devlin's review https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/uncle-petros-and-goldbachs-conjectureFri Jan 22 15:00:10 2021 - permalink -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Petros_and_Goldbach%27s_Conjecture
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Responsive Web design
Mon Jan 11 22:14:30 2021 - permalink -- https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/HTML/Tutorials/responsive_Webdesign/bestehende_Webseiten_umbauen
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LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX recipes
Examples from the LaTeX Cookbook https://www.packtpub.com/product/latex-cookbook/9781784395148Sat Jan 9 15:35:45 2021 - permalink -- https://latex-cookbook.net/
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Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames: Control Characters (such as Newline), Leading Dashes, and Other Problems
Discussion of problems caused by unusual characters in filenames.Wed Jan 6 23:34:19 2021 - permalink -
Found (again) via a link on the TUHS mailing list
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-June/030040.html- https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html
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Emacs Should Be Emacs Lisp - Tom Tromey
Talk about the advantages of Emacs Lisp over Scheme and Common Lisp.Tue Dec 22 14:57:35 2020 - permalink -
Found on https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/how_to_take_smart_notes_org/- https://braindump.jethro.dev/posts/emacs_should_be_emacs_lisp/
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Spektrum Kompakt Im Orbit - Unterwegs in der Erdumlaufbahn
Sun Dec 13 21:55:55 2020 - permalink -- https://www.spektrum.de/pdf/spektrum-kompakt-im-erdorbit/1712030
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How CPUs are Designed and Built
The series will cover computer architecture, processor circuit design, VLSI (very-large-scale integration), chip fabrication, and future trends in computing.Sun Dec 13 21:53:59 2020 - permalink -- https://www.techspot.com/article/1821-how-cpus-are-designed-and-built/
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Collection of computer-related usenet articles
Fri Dec 11 21:39:33 2020 - permalink -- https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdA5WkDNALetBn4iFeSepHjdLGJdxPBwZyY47ir1bZGAK/comp/index.html
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Michael Orlitzky { Let's not Encrypt }
Interesting argument against the current state of HTTPS certification.Fri Dec 4 16:40:10 2020 - permalink -
See also his other articles, e.g. http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/makeing_latex.xhtml- http://michael.orlitzky.com/articles/lets_not_encrypt.xhtml
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[TUHS] BSTJ archives
Links to archives for the Bell System Technical Journal, the IBM Journal of Research and Development, DEC Technical Journal, the Hewlett--Packard Journal, and the IntelFri Aug 14 23:54:31 2020 - permalink -
Technology Journal.- https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2020-August/022043.html
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Asterisk - Matthew Brett's pages
Found via https://pirsquared.org/blog/, where I followed a link to the sad, but interesting story of the Xfree fork to X.org.Fri Jul 3 09:30:48 2020 - permalink -
http://asterisk.dynevor.org/xfree-forked.html
I have not read
https://matthew-brett.github.io/curious-git/
yet, but it sounds interesting.- https://asterisk.dynevor.org/pages/about.html
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Language agnostic
Enjoy the various programming-themed writings available on offer. The latest post is available below and the archive link is directly above this text.Sun May 10 17:49:14 2020 - permalink -- http://langnostic.inaimathi.ca/archive
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Wake Up Linux With an RTC Alarm Clock - Linux.com
How to use the RTC alarm function.Tue Mar 17 16:21:54 2020 - permalink -- https://www.linux.com/tutorials/wake-linux-rtc-alarm-clock/