Links for the week

The always-excellent Eli Bendersky wrote about speeding up a lexer he's written in go, and the tradeoffs one can make for various speedups.
This article about Testscript, a tool the go team uses to test the go interpreter (example), now released as an importable package.
Learning Synths from ableton. Looks interesting, I haven't done the tutorial yet but the playground is plenty fun all by itself
Pareto exploration is a neat visualization of NBA games on various efficency frontiers, and the concept of a Pareto game was new to me.
Mechanical Watch, a beautiful interactive explanation of how a mechanical watch works, all done in hand-coded WebGL
I discovered the R Graph Gallery. R isn't my thing, but there's lots of nice visualizations and thorough explanation of how to make them in here.
The Singapore government tech stack is interesting, and rhymes with the work I'm trying to do with the US government in mind right now
This presentation on ultorg, a concept UI for database exploration and user interfaces, is very cool.
A very cool project to use QGis to style modern maps similarly to some classic 18th century maps
Web scraping via heap snapshots is a very cool method for defeating sites (like facebook or twitter) that intentionally obfuscate their HTML to defeat scraping — dump the browser's memory and pull objects from it instead of using the DOM.

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