Control Structure #53: One Word Awesomebar

Andrew and Steven return to podcasting to talk about lost technology, acquisitions, web browsers, New Year's resolutions, deprecation of the web and the internet, Markov chains, and more, along with a long winded explanation of btrfs features.

Andrew and Steven return to podcasting to talk about lost technology, acquisitions, web browsers, New Year's resolutions, deprecation of the web and the internet, Markov chains, and more, along with a long winded explanation of btrfs features.


Links

SimCity’s upcoming offline mode the result of six and a half months of work, says Maxis | PC Gamer
Tourist walks off pier while browsing on Facebook | World news | theguardian.com
The Cubli: A Gravity-Defying Cube that Can Jump, Balance, and Walk | Colossal
Georgia Tech Researchers Reveal Phrases that Pay on Kickstarter | College of Computing
Create your own Bullet time camera rig with Raspberry Pi | Muktware
Mac Pro (late 2013) replica
Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max
The Next Microsoft — Minimally Minimal
Google to Acquire Nest – Investor Relations – Google
AOL Sells Winamp And Shoutcast For $5-10M To Radionomy, Takes 12% Stake In Belgian Digital Audio Startup | TechCrunch
Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Outage post-mortem
Multiprocess Firefox | Bill McCloskey’s Blog
Chrome rendering engine will get faster, lighter, and better offline in 2014 | Ars Technica
Finding a low-memory browser – Scott Hanselman
Living a High-DPI desktop lifestyle can be painful – Scott Hanselman
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems | Ars Technica
“Shopping cart” patent rolls to a halt at the Supreme Court | Ars Technica
Newegg.com – Newegg’s Fight Patent Trolls T-Shirt
The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise | Wired Business | Wired.com
Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules | Ars Technica
Net Neutrality is Dead. The FCC Won’t Save It. It’s Time to Start Building. — Medium
King James Programming
praetoralpha/toilet · GitHub
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Jamendo – quiet ep by Transient
Shardik’s Walkman – Pasodoble e-moll (live) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #181: CS #53 — Whitespace is Significant!

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