Interesting Links from December

Here are some interesting things I read this month. Presented without comment or endorsement.

• Lessons from my PhD (archive)
• What’s the Best Insult you Know? (archive)
• Interfaces and Nil in Go, or, Don’t Lie to Computers (archive)
• Explaining AP style on Black and white (archive)
• The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (archive)
• Uncomfortable Truths in Software Engineering, (archive) HN, (archive)
• Spiking Neural Networks (archive)
• The Evolutions of Lambdas in C++14, C++17 and C++20 HN (archive)
• Conflict vs. Mistake (archive)
• Is there a Right to Own a Gun? (archive)
• Untitled (archive)
• “Every so often…" (archive)
• This is what Makes my Head Spin (archive)
• Burger Kang (archive)
• So You Want to Fight Wokeness (archive)
• Tao of Unix Programming, (archive)