Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)(gist.github.com)

360 points by Eric_WVGG 2 years ago | 204 comments

A GitHub Gist reproducing Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, "Atoms and Lists," from Metamagical Themas.

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything(gist.github.com)

10 points by em-bee 1 year ago | 4 comments

macOS Internals(gist.github.com)

698 points by JoelMcCracken 3 years ago | 112 comments

A GitHub Gist collecting links to John Siracusa's Mac OS X reviews, tracing macOS internals from the prerelease era to Swift.

MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes(gist.github.com)

278 points by interpidused 8 months ago | 105 comments

Orthodox C++(gist.github.com)

48 points by klaussilveira 2 years ago | 35 comments