An example of cross-platform development without resorting to cross-platform GUI widgets. Damn straight!

I have a new favorite pencil,¹ almost as dark as charcoal (but without the mess). Great for UI design, comic design, and random sketches.

1. A General’s Extra Black No. 555 ↩

Take a look at the Joyent response to an article about web hosts:

Joyent.com is not, and has not been down.
We have a history of 100% network uptime (that’s verifiable), and zero facility issues over 4 years.

That’s a big claim to make, especially considering Joyent’s breakup with Twitter and other recent uptime issues.

Thanks to a number¹ of people for pointing out that the comic format on RobotPony was retarded/unclear. I’ll rethink the layout this week, so that it’s possible to repost them elsewhere easily (free advertising). Done, thanks guys!

1. Always good for an honest WTF? ↩

Perl Cannot Be Parsed: A Formal Proof, a proof of the impossible complexity of Perl’s syntax. It’s a deep, flexible grammar, that can be extended by its delegates.

x86 merge notes for an upcoming kernel release, including theoretical support for up to 65k CPUs, and 4k CPUs in more practical terms. Computing is back to where it started for me, except instead of 4k of RAM at the forefront it’s CPUs. We’re now talking about CPU support in the thousands … knowing in the back of our minds that in a decade it will be millions.

A scathing rant against Rails from the comp.lang.lisp newsgroup.

S.W.A.H.G. is a Haiku parser/generator written in Perl. Is there anything that Perl cannot do?

Run Leopard on the Asus eeePC? I can’t imagine that Apple will ignore this.

Here’s a pitch for XMMP (Jabber) versus web services for controlling cloud-style computing problems. It’s funny too, I had a Jabber-powered site in 2000 (or so) that worked really well, but I forgot about it after moving to Wordpress. I hope the approach sticks.