linklog
20 January 2010
Intertubes
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Hugely interesting replies from a long list of eminent luminaries, thinkers, and gasbags.
Code
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In some ways the Internet is just a side-effect of the really important event of the late 20th century: the rise of Open Source. This slightly dated but excellent paper analyses data from Ohloh to show that the total amount of Open Source code out there doubles every 12-14 months. Five years ago, there were many big commercial software projects with no Open Source components, today I know of none. Dirk Riehle's other work is also worth looking at.
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A factor in the movement to NoSQL - I bet Chris Date feels a disturbance in the force.
Toys
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A construction set for adults. I simply must have one of these. Must must.
UX
Two long UX reads in this edition of the linklog - make a cup of coffee, sit somewhere comfortable, and enjoy:
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A monograph on user interface design by Bret Victor.
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A thorough and entertaining survey of human colour perception, colour models, and the history of our understanding of these things.
Visualisation
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The Hilbert curve is a great visualisation tool when you care about clusters of features in a sequence, but don't care about order. Look out for a few more blog posts on this subject from me in the near future.
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Beautiful graph visualisation technique, which reminds me uncannily of the trunking in ant trails. I wonder what a pheromone-trail inspired algorithm for graph visualisation would look like?
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A fascinating printable calendar, featuring a different nomographic method for every month.
More posts:
- Malware 05 Jan 2012
- Visualizing entropy in binary files 04 Jan 2012
- Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves 23 Dec 2011
- mitmproxy 0.6 07 Aug 2011
- mitmproxy 0.5 27 Jun 2011
- How UDIDs are used: a survey 19 May 2011
- De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint 04 May 2011
- subscount: Counting RSS feed subscribers 02 Apr 2011

