Hi there. Music: new Portico Quartet and Mogwai, groovy deep tek with Liquid Phonk, and guess what? Aaaa Raaaaaadiohead live, last year in Montréal.

News:

• A serf on Google's farm, one more view on Google's "almost comically great" monopoly and censorship power. Via DF.
• Chris Bolin: Offline only.
• John Scalzi: My personal feminism, 2017.
• More old Scalzi I had missed: Being poor, via HN.
• Lindsey Kuper: My first fifteen compilers, 👍 post on good progressive teaching, and the pointlessness of the compiler/transpiler divide. Also, What do people mean when they say "transpiler"?
• "What next?", Graydon Hoare (Rust creator, now working at Apple on Swift) answering to "After memory safety, what do you think is the next big step for compiled languages to take?" HN.
• Understanding the Facebook vs Apache Software Foundation license kerfuffle. HN, HN2.
  • The React license for founders and CTOs: A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD+Patents license. HN, where user slavik81 provides a good tldr:

    There already exists a widely-used license for actively protecting both users and developers from patents embodied in a work: Apache 2.0.

    Facebook made their own license for a reason. Compared to Apache, the Facebook license gives Facebook greater power in the user-developer relationship. They only give users use of React patents, but in return they demand protection against all patents from their users.

    I'm not a huge fan of the patent system, but I'm even less a fan of hoisting Facebook into a position of even greater power over smaller competitors.

    tl;dr: The clause isn't fair. It grants uneven protection. Their refusal to use a similar, existing, popular license that does grant equal protection is concerning.

  • Matt: On React and WordPress.
• It's okay to “forget” what you read, on what remains of books after reading (a mental model) and the value of reading notes. Still very much relevant: Paul Graham: How you know, with the nerdy-but-melikeit analogy that reading a book is digesting it or "compiling" it, and compilation at different times / mental "states" yield different compilations. Via HN.
• UNIX stories: the why behind ~ and vi's hjkl motions.
• A not-too-bad developer manifesto, via HN.
• [fr] Libé - Travail : Bonne figure et triste mine, sur le "travail émotionnel, c’est-à-dire le déclenchement ou refoulement d'une émotion dans le but de maintenir extérieurement l’apparence attendue par le public et/ou leur employeur".
• The revolution usually starts here: Photographs of teenagers in their bedrooms 1960-80s, via Nouveau Projet.
• DOOM running on a phone running on Unreal Engine 4, of course 😄. "a custom Emscripten port of DOSBox, running on a custom WebKit component (allows for input and sound - kinda), running on a phone, running on UE4."
• Good SMBCs this week: eco-responsible Snow White, and Property.
• 💩😷⚠ Donaldese:
  • Guardian - Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world . HN1, HN2.

    When we abandoned, for its embarrassing residue of subjectivity, reason as a form of truth, and made science the sole arbiter of both the real and the true, we created a void that pseudo-science was happy to fill.

    The authority of the professor, the reformer, the legislator or the jurist does not derive from the market, but from humanistic values such as public spiritedness, conscience or the longing for justice. Long before the Trump administration started demeaning them, such figures had been drained of salience by an explanatory scheme that can’t explain them. Surely there is a connection between their growing irrelevance and the election of Trump, a creature of pure whim, a man without the principles or conviction to make for a coherent self. A man without a mind, who represents the total absence of reason, is running the world; or at least ruining it. As a Manhattan real estate wiseguy, though, Trump, hey – he knows what he knows: that his sins have yet to be punished in the marketplace.

  • Kottke: To the people I've lost over this election.