This is a reposting of a bit I wrote on Fri 2015-05-29.

I’ve gone round and round trying to sort out what’s the ideal communication solution. For now I’ve come back to the simple answer: email.

I still love Squeak Smalltalk. A pointer to this paper was posted on Hacker News Today.

Back to the Future
The Story of Squeak, A Practical Smalltalk Written in Itself

by

Dan Ingalls, Ted Kaehler, John Maloney, Scott Wallace, Alan Kay

Back to the Future

Hacker News posting

From sqlite.org, Appropriate Uses For SQLite

On Medium: Is the Cosmic Distance Ladder Flawed?

Tech Giants Team Up to Fix Typography’s Biggest Problem | WIRED

Microsoft’s Internet Business Gets a New Kind of Processor | WIRED

Here’s the most recent image of my iPhone home screen as it continues to evolve. I think the most recent, previous image was this one.

IOS 8.1

One of the best documentaries on the history of micro computing, covering 1975 to 1995, is Robert X. Cringley’s “Triumph of the Nerds.” It’s currently on YouTube.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

This outstanding article by Emily Gilbert in Medium shows pictures of observatories made from orbiting telescopes.

Pictures of Telescopes by Telescopes

An article titled “Microservices – Please, don’t” caught my eye, but I think the author has it wrong. It’s true we’ve been using the micro service approach at work, building REST/JSON servers to provice APIs, and I have been questioning whether this is the best approach.