a collection of (hopefully) useful information https://www.untalkative.one/ 2026-07-28T18:07:38+00:00 https://www.untalkative.one/ https://www.untalkative.one/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2023-06-29T17:30:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.untalkative.one/reading:2019:bookmark-dump?rev=1688059807&do=diff Bookmark dump, November 2019 Since I’ve joined the Fediverse, every now and then I stumble upon cool and inspiring things. Usually I “star” them in order to be able to return and re-read them in my free time. But that re-reading never actually happens because I don’t browse my old favourites… text/html 2023-06-29T17:25:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.untalkative.one/reading:2019:good-stories?rev=1688059504&do=diff Good stories Over the years, I’ve read a bunch of incredibly interesting computer stories. Perhaps they should be called computer horror stories? This is highly recommended reading: * Unix Recovery Legend * VAXen, My Children, Just Don’t Belong In Some Places * The case of the 500-mile email * Two interesting texts explaining why terminal windows are often 80×25: text/html 2023-06-29T17:26:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.untalkative.one/reading:2019:holiday-reading?rev=1688059592&do=diff Holiday reading I’ve decided to celebrate November 11th by reading about IT and CS, and a bit of philosophy of course. I’ve started with the great essay by Joseph Gentle about 3 tribes of programmers, which is a very nice summary of the key differences between groups of software engineers and where they come from. text/html 2023-06-29T17:32:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.untalkative.one/reading:2019:link-dump?rev=1688059937&do=diff Link dump, December 2019 This Christmas I’m reviewing my Fediverse bookmarks again and collecting the most interesting findings. * Charles Childers about his Forth implementation: " While working on my Forth this week, I rewrote the assembler in assembly, letting me fit it into my kernel so that I no longer need to inline raw machine code in the standard library. text/html 2023-06-29T17:23:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.untalkative.one/reading:2019:w01?rev=1688059415&do=diff Week 2019-W01 in reading This week has been simple as there are only two items on my list: * Swearing is Good For You. * LeSS Framework: rules, principles and whatever I could find to grasp the key concepts around this framework. I’m not into agile methodologies, I just follow the rules of the project I work for and that’s all. But at certain times it pays off to get the details right to avoid reinventing the wheel, so I’ve been doing my homework this week. The amount of interesting topic… text/html 2023-06-29T17:24:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.untalkative.one/reading:2019:w38?rev=1688059470&do=diff Week 2019-W38 in reading Before going on vacation, I’ve decided I’d download some papers about degrowth in order to learn more about what’s actually going on in the topic, instead of relying on the gossip. After a short visit to Research Gate, I was ready to go offline for the two weeks I had to take some rest.