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keedon··on The Laws of Computing – A look from the Forth side [pdf]
The link appears to be broken, try: http://www.exemark.com/FORTH/Ting_Laws_of_Computing_v4.pdf
keedon··on The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air
Pretty good, and you can make notes & highlight them too
keedon··on A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
http://www.projectoberon.com/ has all of the source and the Oberon book
keedon··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
The computer mouse was invented back in the 60s, its hardly modern technology
keedon··on A Pissed-Off Tutorial for Google Wave (2010) [video]
Isn't the change mainly due to the iPhone being released? Before that it was a copy of the blackberry look & feel
keedon··on I Do Not Like Go
This is mock German - Google translate is probably taking spitzens parken as peak parking. But it is probably a refernce to blinkenlights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
keedon··on Alternative code styles
I think it would help with clarity - too much nesting in a function can mean it's doing too much and might need splitting into several functions
keedon··on PEP 572: Python assignment expressions has been accepted

  for n in [i for i in range(100) if i%2 == 0]:
    print n
Will work (if a bit repetitive looking)