PyPy Status Blog: We need Software Transactional Memory. Interesting article on why we want STM, even if it may not be obvious - namely to make the more complex primitives of higher-level languages like Python transactional. And if we have STM as an implementation detail, we can also easily make it available to the programmer.
Archive 23. August 2011
Setup services on your Pod - GitHub. Saved for later, I've already set up the link to Twitter on my own pod. I'll probably set up Tumblr soon too, since I still use it quite often. Diaspora is still quite buggy (it's really Alpha), but already quite complete in terms of features. And it's fun to play around with. However, people on Diaspora pods should also post more there, otherwise the social aspect has its problems - I only knew after self-experiments on two pods and several days of waiting that posts actually arrive at me - not because of technical problems, but simply because no one wrote anything ...
Why I'm not on Google Plus - Charlies Diary. Charles Stross on things programmers often get wrong when thinking about names. Specifically about Google+