• Diversity in tech is a hugely important topic and while more exposure is reaching the mainstream, a vast chasm still remains. The Big Lie: Tech Companies and Diversity Hiring highlights the disparity between the “good talk” of diversity hiring and the realities of actual hiring practices. Along this vein, On being a Black Man is a slice of life worth reading and Invisible Talent ties all of these themes together.

• Videos and slides for the MINIXCon 2016 program

• Whatever Happened to Wordstar?

• The apocryphal history of *Star - *Star is an eccentric strategic board game by the equally eccentric Mathematician/Demigod Ea Ea.

• Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer

• 268 RR Mazes For Programmers with Jamis Buck - At one time in my life I was obsessed with programmatic maze generation and so it’s wonderful that someone has finally taken the time to write a book about the algorithms.

• Knuth on Literate Programming (via Aditya Siram)

• Beautiful Code: The implementation of CONC in Saclib and 9P in Python (both via Paul deGrandis)

• RIP Alan Vega

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