Bonjour bonsoir frendz, and music with Jim Guthrie.

News

Lola Dupre, via waxy.

Kottke: Beavers.

SMBC: So much of school is pointless, Nice people with ideas about pedagogy.

[fr] Pourquoi la Suisse est pétée de thunes, merci Berthe.

Software

A curious device from 1985 called the “Etak Navigator”, whoaaaa. HN.

Asianometry: The birth of SQL and the relational database, The rise of Oracle, SQL and the relational database.

Git manpage generator 😄. HN.

doom-htop: “the classic DOOM game over htop, the text-based process viewer” 😄. HN.

AI

[fr] Monsieur Phi : « GPT est NUL aux échecs et n’y comprend rien ! » — Voici pourquoi j’avais tort, et c’est fascinant.

Majeed Kazemitabaar & Zustin Z. Henley: Learning to code with and without AI, interesting results. Direct links to PDF papers: Studying the effect of AI code generators on supporting novice learners in introductory programming and How novices use LLM-based code generators to solve CS1 coding tasks in a self-paced learning environment.

Games

NeverKnowsBest: The past and present of the “Gamergate” culture wars around video games.