Friday Links

Friday, November 11, 2022

Things I’ve noticed this week:

• Colin McMillen cheekily combines OCR and Perl to determine that 93% of paint splatters are valid programs.
• Dry, but useful: someone has a put together a comprehensive checklist for publishing EOL and EOS dates for your software.
• NASA confirms that recently-found debris is from Space Shuttle Challenger. I was pretty young when the disaster happened, but I remember hearing about it.
• Sony will begin to use paper packaging, rather than plastic.
• James Ryan over at War on the Rocks comments on upcoming Turkish elections, a subject about which I know basically nothing. Still, this is fascinating: “Most political scientists these days describe Turkey’s system as ‘competitive authoritarianism,’ meaning that Turkey is an authoritarian state that happens to hold elections that are sometimes competitive.”