A re-recording from the original script of Alan Turing's 1951 radio lecture titled "Can Digital Computers Think?"

That time a bunch of nerdcore rappers had beef with Alex Trebek. "Your achievements are watching smarter people succeed."

Guide to common connectors (otherwise an overwhelming array of options) with suggestions for less expensive crimping tools.

This article (and its sibling on decreasing an LVM logical volume size [1]) were helpful to me today, and I'm sure I'm going to have to look this up again at some point.

1: https://www.rootusers.com/lvm-resize-how-to-decrease-an-lvm-partition/

Russel Smith converts a typewriter into a keyboard with a single SoftPot touch sensor.

Brad Fitzpatrick's thoughts on making open-source projects easier to contribute to (2010).

This is a classic. Dmitry wrote an ARM emulator for the 8-bit AVR ATmega microcontroller, and successfully built what is probably still the slowest, cheapest, single board Linux computer.

He's also written an ARM Thumb emulator for the ATTiny85:
http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=08.%20uM0

Alex Colovic's account of becoming a chess grandmaster.

"The stories of the greatest and most influential microchips in history—and the people who built them"

Work-in-progress of the third edition of Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin's NLP text "Speech and Language Processing".

Hacker News discussion about why hearing aids are so expensive.

An Interview with IC designer Jørgen Jakobsen, formerly of Ericsson. Talks a bit about the hearing aid industry; lots of links in the description.

see also: Donald Knuth's "The Complexity of Songs": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complexity_of_Songs

Parody by Chuck Musciano:

"After thinking about that poor wretch who has become addicted to vi, I was inspired to compose the following ditty, sung to the tune of 'Addicted To Love' by Robert Palmer. As you sing this, it may help the effect to imagine a dozen women, all of whom resemble Bill Joy, dressed in black and dancing sinuously."

The one where Michael Burge writes a chess engine to demonstrate how to load and execute arbitrary machine code from a Python user-defined function from within Amazon's Redshift database service.

This is the technique I use to manage my dot files across a few computers (bare git repository in ~ with an alias for git).

But some of these projects look interesting: https://dotfiles.github.io/#general-purpose-dotfile-utilities

Good overview of vim's textwidth and formatoptions for automatically (or not) wrapping text.

Ben Hoyt's account of contributing a feature to Python's standard library is a good account of the open-source process gone well.

This is a little framework (just a collection of LESS/SCSS/Stylus mixins) by Tyler Tate for creating responsive grid-based CSS layouts: you declare the layout with variables in a CSS pre-processor, and then it calculates the actual pixel widths. It is what I've used for my few designs, but I might try out CSS flexbox in the future...

Here's the project's github (there are several pending PRs, and Tyler hasn't made any merges since July 2015): https://github.com/tylertate/semantic.gs