Miscellaneous
- The New York Times Magazine writes about the iPod. Jobs: “And it’s like…somebody who’s not cool trying to be cool. It’s painful to watch.”
- D. Richard Hipp ponders how to improve SQLite’s concurrency. (I would be happy if it could just maintain its cache between calls.)
- Tim Bray: Do Databases Suck?
- Joel Spolsky: “For a shrinkwrapped software company…this level of craftsmanship is precisely what delights users and provides longstanding competitive advantage.”
- Chris Turner links to iCapture, a site that lets you see how Safari will render your Web page.
- Matz introduces Ruby2 and the Rite interpreter.
- Martin Berger interviews the legendary Robin Milner.
- Dan Sugalski: What the heck is: A type
- Stephen Roach: “Washington seems almost blasé in opting for both ‘guns and butter.’…In 2Q03, the US current-account deficit stood at 5.1% of GDP, more than three times the 1.6% gap prevailing in late 1993.”
- Wolfram’s MathWorld has a great glossary of definitions and derivations, complete with references.
- Netflix Freak is a new application that’s similar to the discontinued Netflix Fanatic.
- John Gruber wrote an AppleScript to make BBEdit check the syntax of PHP, the only language that I genuinely hate.
