Hacker News
- Quicker and easier ways to get more light https://blog.plover.com/tech/corn-bulbs.html 92 comments
- I would like a job writing Haskell https://blog.plover.com/2022/02/07/ 492 comments
- “It is never a compiler error” https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/12/ 272 comments
Lobsters
- I found the best anagram in English http://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring.html 7 comments programming
- Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II) https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/tips-2.html 7 comments programming
- The Universe of Discourse : Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II) https://blog.plover.com/prog/git/tips-2.html 2 comments programming
- Fuckin' user interface design, I swear https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui.html 119 comments programming
- Mathematical jargon failures (The Universe of Discourse) https://blog.plover.com/lang/math-jargon-failures.html 18 comments math
- A fun optimization trick from rsync - Good Read https://blog.plover.com/prog/switch-case-optimization.html 29 comments programming
- Why I never finish my Haskell programs (part 1 of ∞) https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/what-goes-wrong.html 7 comments perl
- The Singleton Type Fake Keyword Trick https://blog.plover.com/prog/haskell/fake-keyword.html 11 comments haskell
- Mathematical pettifoggery and pathological examples https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/23/#pettifoggery 5 comments math
- No, it is not a compiler error. It is never a compiler error. https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/12/ 75 comments compsci
- Mark Dominus: "That time I met Erdős" https://blog.plover.com/math/erdos.html 4 comments math
- Git remote branches and Git's missing terminology http://blog.plover.com/prog/git-remote-branches.html 19 comments programming
- Restore /dev/null from backup http://blog.plover.com/2017/04/02/ 22 comments linux
- Surprising reasons to use a syntax-coloring editor http://blog.plover.com/prog/syntax-coloring-1998.html 5 comments perl
- How to recover lost files added to Git but not committed http://blog.plover.com/2016/04/16/#git-reset-disaster 5 comments programming
- Curvature of water from a tap http://blog.plover.com/physics/faucet.html 10 comments math
- Nobody will guess what this does http://blog.plover.com/prog/perl/barewords-setup.html 22 comments perl
- The shittiest project I ever worked on http://blog.plover.com/tech/prudential.html 417 comments programming
- Insane calculations in bash http://blog.plover.com/prog/spark.html 30 comments programming
- Where should usage messages go? http://blog.plover.com/unix/usage.html 4 comments linux
- "With Linux, the OS was already designed for [Linus], and he didn't have to make a lot of the important decisions, like what it means to be a file. But Git is full of really clever ideas that other people might not have thought of." http://blog.plover.com/misc/git-talk.html 135 comments programming
- Monads *are* like burritos http://blog.plover.com/prog/burritos.html 22 comments haskell
- World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem http://blog.plover.com/math/gdl-smullyan.html 132 comments programming
- World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem http://blog.plover.com/math/gdl-smullyan.html 5 comments math
- A simple and brilliant proof that the square root of 2 is irrational http://blog.plover.com/math/sqrt-2-new.html 20 comments math
- Band-Aid wrappers glow in the dark while being opened. http://blog.plover.com/physics/luminous-bandaids.html 10 comments reddit.com
- The Universe of Discourse : I wanted to stick to the main point, which was: "Dijkstra was not insane" http://blog.plover.com/2009/07/31/#hoare-logic 59 comments programming
- A child is bitten by a dog every 0.07 seconds... http://blog.plover.com/2009/05/22/#dog-bites 4 comments reddit.com
- MJD: Bipartite matching and same-sex marriage http://blog.plover.com/2009/05/17/#bipartite-matching 19 comments programming
- Let n=1 ... wait ... http://blog.plover.com/2009/02/16/#milo 18 comments math
- More Uzi-clubbing: a counterexample http://blog.plover.com/prog/loaded-uzi-2.html 5 comments programming
- License plate sabotage: "there is no possible drawback to having the least legible plate number permitted by law" http://blog.plover.com/misc/license-plates.html 103 comments reddit.com
- Leap days and the Dominus calendar http://blog.plover.com/calendar/leapday.html 5 comments programming
- The Universe of Discourse : Emacs and alists http://blog.plover.com/2008/01/24/#elisp 62 comments programming
- Undefined behavior in Perl and other languages http://blog.plover.com/prog/perl/undefined.html 25 comments programming
- How to calculate the square root of 2 http://blog.plover.com/math/attractors.html 3 comments programming
- The Universe of Discourse : Ambiguous words and dictionary hacks http://blog.plover.com/lang/ambiguous.html 9 comments programming