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Java tricks with 'var' and anonymous classes (that you should never use at work)

Gov.? 2LDs in various European countries

Parsing with derivatives. (Slides) [pdf]

A history of CPAN (2015)

Parsing with Derivatives: A Functional Pearl (2011) [pdf]

Isaac Asimov asks, “how do people get new ideas?”

Compiler fuzzing with AFL

Design patterns as higher order datatype-generic programs [pdf]

Rebel girls and children’s books: In defense of well-behaved women

Some of my favourite lost buildings of Cambridge

Hasbro says it owns the Scrabble dictionary. Players beg to differ

All the perfect pangrams in English

The ARM scalable vector extension

Disambiguating the first computer

JSON5: JSON for humans

Hjson: a user interface for JSON

Jsonnet: a data templating language

/zish: A data serialization format

Edn: extensible data notation, a subset of Clojure

SDLang: a simple declarative language with an XML-like structure