- Folks have been living in the American continents about a … couple dozen millennia … longer than you thought.
- This was just so … dunno, poetic? romantic? … on “birds who never come down”
- The almost-was-but-wasn’t “soviet internet”
- Not quite the brand image I’d imagine a company wanting, but the Casio F91W is apparently the favorite watch of terrorists
- Current affairs: Stuff is happening in cities, in education, online, in media outlets, in museums
- Something about My Little Pony (heh)
- Fishing boats from space
- Great look at systems design
- (warning: niche audience) bubbling up this recommendation to use Org-mode more (and while I’m here: on *the future of Emacs, and … Eshell)
- Every once in a while, someone does a comparison between the members of the Lisp family
- Matt Taibbi moved to Substack (been a fan since his Great Recessions reporting days, more relevant than ever now)
- Z80: hardware simulation for nostalgia buffs
- On how dogs might have a sense for the magnetic field (I remember something similar about Robins earlier)
- Seeing a black hole’s corona blink (and … on the largest-scale structures we know)
- People always have opinions on … protobufs
- An investigation of “ramp models” for building the Great Pyramid
- Software/computing nostalgia: on “programming as teaching”
- On Perl6 (aka Raku)
- A speech at Mt. Rushmore
- On the shifting fortunes of “classical liberalism”
- More of “what-could-have-been” tech history: looking back at IBM’s bungling of OS/2
- Honeybees are smart as F***. Seriously.
- Water, water, everywhere.
- I have to see this giant clock once in my lifetime
- In 1984, the NYT asks, “Does everyone need to learn programming?”
- Damn, Playstations are built in an entirely automated factory
- An account of the special effects for Tron: Legacy