The Stack - Week 42/2016

And here's part two of the long July-October stretch. (part 1)

Maps

• How an Imaginary Island Stayed on Maps for Five Centuries
• A Technical Follow-Up: How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps
• Generating fantasy maps
• What is the roundest country?

Markov

• Markov Chains

Math

• EE261 - The Fourier Transform and its Applications

Metrics

• Monitoring 101: Collecting the Right Data

Monitoring/Prometheus

• prometheus/client_java: Prometheus instrumentation library for JVM applications

Mutt

• SmallData | Blog | Using gmail with mutt (HN thread)

OCaml/JavaScript

• BuckleScript: The 1.0 release has arrived!

PHP/Symfony

• Building your own Framework with the MicroKernelTrait

PLT

• "My new paper on how to efficiently implement Ruby’s metaprogramming functionality https://t.co/sWv8ggJk2I"

Purescript

• Wrapping JavaScript for PureScript

Raspberrypi

• christinaa/rpi-open-firmware: Open source VPU side bootloader for Raspberry Pi.

Refactoring

• Braid Code Cleanup (part 1)

RSS

• Why Podcasting Still Needs RSS

Rust

• Moving, Cloning, and Copying Coloring Books in Rust
• A Hoare Logic for Rust

Rust/Golang

• Paradigms of Rust for the Go developer

S3

• Analytics for CloudFront & Amazon S3

Spin

• Confessions of a Former Apocalypse Survival Guide Writer

Startup

• Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software: RethinkDB, SageMath, Andreessen-Horowitz, Basecamp and Open Source Software

Stream Processing

• 4 Valuable Resources on Stream processing

VIM

• Recommendations - #vim on freenode

Writing

• How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly ~ Stephen Downes