* 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](https://medium.com/@dareobasanjo/the-big-lie-tech-companies-and-diversity-hiring-f52fb82abfbf)* 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](https://blog.devcolor.org/on-being-a-black-man-42ecb7946fe0#.dd4ywr55z)* is a slice of life worth reading and *[Invisible Talent](https://medium.com/@kthomas901/invisible-talent-409a085bee9c#.9ojecccme)* ties all of these themes together.

* [Videos and slides for the MINIXCon 2016 program](http://www.minix3.org/conference/2016/program.html)

* [Whatever Happened to Wordstar?](http://www.dvorak.org/blog/whatever-happened-to-wordstar-2/)

* [The apocryphal history of *Star](http://ea.ea.home.mindspring.com/history.html) - *Star is an eccentric strategic board game by the equally eccentric Mathematician/Demigod Ea Ea. 

* [Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer](https://medium.com/@Svenskunganka/interviewing-my-mother-a-mainframe-cobol-programmer-c693d40d88f7#.hits16fdc)

* [268 RR Mazes For Programmers with Jamis Buck](https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/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](https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/useR-international-R-User-conference/useR2016/Literate-Programming) (via [Aditya Siram](https://twitter.com/deech))

* Beautiful Code: [The implementation of CONC in Saclib](https://github.com/ohpauleez/saclib/blob/master/src/CONC.c) and [9P in Python](https://github.com/svinota/py9p/blob/master/py9p/py9p.py) (both via [Paul deGrandis](https://twitter.com/ohpauleez))

* [RIP Alan Vega](http://henryrollins.com/news/detail/alan_vega1/)

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**Words**

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*[Magister Ludi by Herman Hesse](https://www.amazon.com/Glass-Bead-Game-Magister-Novel/dp/0312278497/?tag=fogus-20)*

**Musics**

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*[Suicide - S/T](https://www.amazon.com/Suicide/dp/B00E5CY96A/?tag=fogus-20)*

**Codes**

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[Kilo - a tiny text editor in 1000 LoC](https://github.com/antirez/kilo)

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