Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2010. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new.
Understanding Pac-man Ghost Behavior
Clojure Unsupervised Part-Of-Speech Tagger Explained
Reading Code is Good, Writing Documentation is Better
Herbert Stoyan’s Lisp collection at CHM
Federer as Religious Experience
The Original Dungeons and Dragons
Manly Slang from the 19th Century
A Programming Language by Iverson
Transaction Processing by Gray
Thinking Forth by Brodie
Land of Lisp by Barski M.D.
Elegant Ruby by Olsen
Breakfast of Champions
Perdido Street Station
In the Country of Last Things
Go for Beginners
Kafka on the Shore
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Pantha du Prince
Oneohtrix Point Never
Sun Ra
Andrew Thomas
Scientist
Andrew Thomas - Between Buildings And Trees
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing
The Walking Dead
Clojure, Haskell, Io, Qi, Coffeescript, Lombok, Datalog
Clojure, Scala, Java, Python, Javascript, SQL, Bash, make, Ruby, C, C++, Potion, CLIPS, Ix, Common Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, Datalog
Soft Stratification for Transformation-Based Approaches to Deductive Databases by Andreas Behrend
The Semantic Elegance of Applicative Languages by D.A. Turner
Practical Predicate Dispatch by Todd Millstein
The Design and Implementation of Typed Scheme by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and Matthias Felleisen
Extending the Scope of Syntactic Abstraction by Waddell and Dybvig
ORBIT: An Optimizing Compiler For Scheme by David Kranz
Lisp in Small Pieces, Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming, Snow Crash, Spook Country, A Fire upon the Deep, Ulysses, Programmer avec Scheme, The Sirens of Titan, Manufacturing Consent
My wife, Christopher Houser, George Jahad, Christophe Grand, Rich Hickey, Stuart Halloway, David Liebke, Zach Beane, Russ Olsen, Peter Seibel, Jeffrey Straszheim, Brenton Ashworth, Anthony Simpson, Zachary Kim, Stanislav Datskovskiy, James Iry, Steve Yegge, Outlaw Vern, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Meikel Brandmeyer, Nurullah Akkaya, Chas Emerick, Ranier Joswig, Steve Jenson, Lau Jensen, Erik Naggum, Oleg Kiselyov, Christian Neukirchen, Shiro Kawai, Kazimir Majorinc, Steve Webster, Mark Tarver, Manuel Simoni, Paul Snively, and Jürgen Hötzel.
html.clj in Marginalia by Zachary Kim
horizon.clj by Kevin Downey (aka. hiredman)
tailopt.js by Guillaume Lathoud
Baysick with continuations by Daniel Spiewak
Wood and Stones by Reginald Braithwaite
Kindle 3
See you next year.
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One side-effect of the book is that I have not had time to bake the other half of many private projects. It’ll be nice to actually have some time to work on code and push it out into the wild… instead of just writing about it.↩︎
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens↩︎