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.

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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