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"The Demo is a music theater work written by composer/performers Mikel Rouse and Ben Neill based on Douglas Engelbart’s historic 1968 demonstration of early computer technology." Wow.
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Cracking article on John Chowning, who invented FM synthesis whilst at Stanford, and the long road to it becoming a commercial and creative prospect. Interesting on the relationship of IP to universities, but also fascinating on Chowning himself – a composer and musician, not a mathematician, who developed one of the hardest-to-understand forms of synthesis simply as a way to push the palette of timbres he could compose with. Brilliant.
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"The last months I’ve crafted a spoon every day. I aim to reach the goal of 365 spoons later this year." Beautiful. Particularly good when you hold down spacebar and whiz through them all.
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This isn't just 'good', 'nice read'; this is pretty vital. It all rings very true and reminds me of the best bits of the best places I worked. It's important for anywhere I work in future.
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'I once asked an old friend, through a thick haze of smoke, what he liked most about a cigarette, to which he replied, "It frames a moment."' Will Davies on fine form; this is interesting and thoughtful and not so much about nicotine as it is about ritual.
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Nice example of real-world examples of using Pundit, including testing.
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Love watching people fix stuff.
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Good points; I really like the custom matchers. I always come to RSpec feeling like i've forgotten something, *again*.
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Fantastic: a real-world traffic engineer explains how he plans roads and transit in Cities:Skylines.