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Glagolitic Capital Letter Spidery Ha

A great Unicode in 5 Minutes presentation from Mark Lentczner at Linden Lab. He passed it along after reading this dense post, clearly concerned about the welfare of my readers. (Searching out the...

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Is Processing a Language?

This question is covered in the FAQ on Processing.org, but still tends to reappear on the board every few months (most recently here). Someone once described Processing syntax as a dialect of Java,...

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Wet and Dry Ingredients; Mixing Bowls and Baking Dishes

Digging through my reading list pile, I begin skimming through A Box, Darkly: Obfuscation, Weird Languages, and Code Aesthetics by Michael Mateas and Nick Montfort. I was moving along pretty good until...

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Pirates of Statistics

Article from the New York Times a bit ago, covering R, everyone’s favorite stats package: R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside...

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JavaScript: The Good Parts

Watched Douglas Crockford’s “JavaScript: The Good Parts” talk, based on his book of the same name. I like Crockford’s work on JSON—or rather, the idea of simple file formats that need simple APIs to...

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Food Fight!

As reported here and here, Apple has updated the language in the latest release of their iPhone/iPad developer tools to explicitly disallow development with other tools and languages: 3.3.1 —...

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