Read Paul Graham's notes about the benefits of building Viaweb with Lisp. I
found it interesting how his competitors (in the 90s) were using CGI scripts to
build their web applications. I wonder how much of his advice would hold true
today...
- Programming Bottom-Up: Benefits of writing reusable utility functions and
amassing a personal utility belt. Specifically how lisp makes this easier than
most or all languages.
- This Year We Can End the Death Penalty: Voting against the death penalty is
voting against the killing of killers *and* the killing of innocent people,
since some estimate that 4% of people on death row are in fact innocent.
As I mention at the top of the org file, I cannot rely on my web browser
informing me which of these essays I've read; it only shows me which of the
links I've clicked.