Humble

The Humble programming language? System? Whatever it is, it's a table-based way of defining algorithms. Very cool.

Target app: Corkboard.me

Do that! Obligatory HNN thread.

Why Johnny can't build UI

A thoughtful post.

Machine learning linkdump

• mlpy Python library for machine learning
• Intuition and data-driven machine learning
• Another competition

Target domain: music

Kinda Hofstadterian, given, but:

• HNN thread about abcjs, a Javascript music typesetter/player using the ABC notation
• Google code page for abcjs
• A list of ABC notation pages
• ABC notation home
• The standard (a page that is surprisingly difficult to find)
• Tutorials
• An interesting-looking paper on evolution of guitar themes. Too bad it's behind the ACM paywall.

Target application: to-do list

Oh come on, you say! To-do lists?

Well, sorry. Here's one. Do that, and I'll love you again.

Bushido

One-click Web app provisioning. Currently they're all agog. Good idea.

The Lisp Curse

An interesting contribution: tl;dr = Lisp is so powerful that major features can be implemented with relative ease, the result being that there is no canonical implementation and thus fragmentation at the social level.

So if you had, say, a system that attempted to understand code, and thus could translate between dialects of OOP, for example, that might bridge this gap.

Say.

Guidelines for shopping cart checkout workflow

Some excellent principles extracted from usability studies of a number of prominent sites. Good reading!

CKAN

CKAN is CPAN for data. ... Why "K"? I don't know.

Node.js ebook roundup

Here, thanks to ReadWriteWeb.