This is a wonderful story of how Pijul and Nest worked hard to overcome challenges brought about by the OVH data center fire earlier this year. Also, I really

This is a wonderful story of how Pijul and Nest worked hard to overcome challenges brought about by the OVH data center fire earlier this year. Also, I really like this footnote: The realisation that naming things is a discipline of its own has probably even been one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century. Cantor probably started that, by rebuilding foundations for mathematics (definitions were particularly fuzzy before him), Wittgenstein established a link with philosophy, blurring the distinction between mathematics and philosophy. Kuhn even established a distinction between the scientists who name things (whom he called “revolutionary”) and the others (the “normies”). Deleuze restated the role of the philosopher as a creator of concepts (which also applies outside of science), or in other words, as a professional namer. And by the way, the history of Computer Science is full of such half-philosophical, half-mathematical discoveries, where naming is almost everything: Turing machines, Communication Complexity, Yao’s principle…