HN blogs - 22/7/23
McCartney on not-knowing and doing it now https://austinkleon.com/2023/07/18/mccartney-on-not-knowing-and-doing-it-now/ (HN source)
The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4188788/the-unlikely-story-of-utf-8-the-text-encoding-of-the-web (HN source)
Feeds Are Not Fit for Gardening https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/feeds-are-not-fit-for-gardening/ (HN source)
Jump, GAMS, and the Ijklm Model https://jump.dev/2023/07/20/gams-blog/ (HN source)
I Finally Bought a Scanner https://leejo.github.io/2023/07/22/scanner_not_scanner/ (HN source)
One for the Science Fiction Fans https://scottnesbitt.online/one-for-the-science-fiction-fans (HN source)
Fake It ’til You Learn It https://jahfer.com/posts/fake-it-til-you-learn-it/ (HN source)
Can We Lose Technology? https://blog.adrianistan.eu/can-we-lose-technology (HN source)
My Infrastructure Megaupdate https://blog.gabrielsimmer.com/posts/infrastructure-megaupdate/ (HN source)
Building for Failure https://encore.dev/blog/building-for-failure (HN source)
Old stuff – the viability, quality and affordability of 10 year old digital tech https://blog.tomjennings.technology/posts/old-stuff/ (HN source)
Descartes and the Delirious Origins of Modern Science https://strangeuniver.se/posts/descartes-and-the-delirious-origins-of-modern-science (HN source)
Exploring garbage collection in V8 with WebGL https://whenderson.dev/blog/webgl-garbage-collection/ (HN source)
Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors https://blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitflies-and-the-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/ (HN source)
A Revolution Against Monopolies https://www.castignoli.it/ideas/a-revolution-against-monopolies/ (HN source)