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4 links, first saved August 22, 2018, latest October 28, 2021.
- Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation
Essay on how the ubiquitous REST pattern has been adopted and often misunderstood. This is the deep, deep irony of REST’s ubiquity today. REST gets blindly used for all sorts of…
- How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
I still fondly (I think fondly?) remember learning Lisp in the Computer Science curriculum at the University of Minnesota. But there is one language that seems to inspire a…
- The Rise and Rise of JSON
Cool early history on the birth of JSON.
- Where Vim Came From
Interesting to read the lineage of one of my preferred editors.