pigeons, patagonia, and prefix matching

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Regex optimization will revive carrier pigeons for data transmission. Always keep a spare phone charger in your car.

1. For point-to-point communication, nothing beats a pigeon
2. Hand-pixeling Monkey Island for the Commodore 64
3. Finding all regex matches breaks linear time guarantees
4. Patagonia fleece started as toilet seat cover fabric
5. Restoring the first computer music from 1951. A remarkable piece of audio archaeology
6. Thiel does Rome