software

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/numpile/ Transform Python AST into LLVM IR for JIT execution.

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/87682811573/compressing-scrabble-dictionaries Efficient ways to store Scrabble wordlists.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2014-04-15-porting-ghc-a-tale-of-two-architectures.html The compelling story of how the Glasgow Haskell Compiler was ported to two new architectures.

http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ Convincingly fake git manpages.

https://github.com/bridgetkromhout/devops-against-humanity Hacker version of Cards Against Humanity.

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272.html The complete history of the X Windows color list.

http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signal-safe-strcpy POSIX forbids using strcpy in signal handlers. Here's how to get around that.

http://royrapoport.blogspot.com/2011/05/coffee-and-its-effects-on-feature-creep.html Managing coffee orders in the workplace.

http://coreperf.com/projects/rejit/introduction.html Rejit is a regular expression engine that uses a JIT for code generation. It also makes use of fancy modern CPU tricks like SIMD instructions.

https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2013-020.txt Satis smart toilets have a hard coded password allowing anyone to flush and lift the lid remotely.