How open source is supporting NASA’s new eyes in space
With the successful liftoff of the James Webb Space Telescope, we ask our very own Arfon Smith about the history of open source and space science. ⌘ Read more

“Turn Your Android Phone Into the Ultimate Retro Computing Battlestation” - Jan 29 at LundukeFest
Joining “Linux Sucks 2022”, “The (True) Untold History of the Internet”, and “Weird Tales of Linux Weirdness”. With more announcements to come. ⌘ Read more

“The early days of Unix at Bell Labs” presented by Brian Kernighan
The early history of UNIX… from a man who was there. ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity
Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what’s more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other (“I’m a Capulet, not a Montague”, “I’m a proletarian, not a bourgeois”, etc.)…. ⌘ Read more

“Weird Tales of Linux Weirdness” at LundukeFest, Jan 29
Joining “Linux Sucks 2022” and “The (True) Untold History of the Internet”… with more announcements to come. ⌘ Read more

“The (True) Untold History of the Internet” – only at LundukeFest
Think you know the story of TCP, WWW, and the Internet? Think again. ⌘ Read more

The History of the Graphical User Interface – 1945 to 1980
A visual, historical tour of the early years of computer GUI’s… starting in 1945. ⌘ Read more

Future of Yarn.social

Today I’m going to talk about Yarn.social’s future, a roadmap into where we’re going and thinking. I’ll also write a little about it’s history of where we came from and highlight how Yarn.social is different and in my opinion better.

For those of you new to my blog or Yarn.social; Yarn.social is a decentralised social media platform, a microBlogging platform. It was originally crea … ⌘ Read more

A brief history of code search at GitHub
This blog post tells the story of why we built a new search engine optimized for code. ⌘ Read more

Horsegirl – Billy
Chicago’s Horsegirl make their official Matador debut with their mesmeric, John Agnello co-produced new single “ Billy”… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds interviews with Linux Journal Magazine: 1994 - 2019
Six interviews with Linus Torvalds that give a peek into the private life of the Linux creator, and provide a history of one of the most important software projects of the last quarter century. ⌘ Read more

Everything starts in a garage… the history of Macs, pretty much, with music.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Oh, OK, then not touching it. I will consider it part of history and, thus, unchangeable. 😊

Worst color palette: ZX Spectrum or CGA?
The two ugliest color palettes in computer history… but which burns your eyes the most? ⌘ Read more

Lunduke on the History Channel
H2 anyway. And mostly in the UK and a few other countries. But it still counts. ⌘ Read more

Jokes about Starbucks’ drink-size names are old enough to drink, drive, and vote by now, but calling the 30-oz. size “trenta” is probably the least dumb name in the history of names for sizes

learning pickup is rewriting your life-history strategy

How to export your complete Foursquare checkin history ⌘ Read more…

A brief history of the devil ⌘ Read more…

How equality slipped away ⌘ Read more…

Visualization of perl development history ⌘ Read more

perl 開發歷史紀錄之視覺化 ⌘ Read more

Authenticity is a sham ⌘ Read more…

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the History of Earth Day ⌘ Read more…

Women’s History Month spotlight: Honoring women developers ⌘ Read more…

I can’t believe it’s controversial to say “somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn’t be in a leadership position”. That’s not “cancel culture”, it’s just friggin’ obvious.

This is an awful take. The issue isn’t that he’s cantankerous and rigid; it’s that he’s sexist, misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, and has a decades-long history of making women feel unsafe. This isn’t “cancel culture”, it’s “consequences” (as is usually the case with that term).

According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

A brief history of melancholy ⌘ Read more…

Black History Month Spotlight: Honoring Black creators, activists, and community builders ⌘ Read more…

History is what we choose to remember “History is what we choose to remember”*… | (Roughly) Daily

Bash emacs command history via ^R ^P ^N ^S, who knew? https://blog.pythian.com/emacs-keybindings-in-bash/

A Dollop of History
A blog about medieval food, with recipes to bring the past to life! Fourteenth-century mushroom pasties anyone? ⌘ Read more

Unexpectedly amusing: my 24-line .zsh_history. (chsh is near the end.)

‘The Right Side of History’ is a Spook. On Whig History and Self-deception. ⌘

Bletchley Park & The National History of Computing Museum ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/bletchley.html

On the blog: Re-Imagining Law Enforcement https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/31/police.html #history #philosophy #politics

📚 Finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

📚 Finished reading Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang

travels with a cat, quite a fine cat, its only flaw being that it refuses to enter any enclosed space whatsoever, bad history or something

The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart – The Art of Research https://theartofresearch.org/a-history/

Malfunctioning Doorbell Lessons: Hey, At Least It Wasn’t Hacked https://tedium.co/2019/04/16/doorbell-history-doorbell-malfunction/

Havel, Power of the Powerless, 1978 https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165havel.html

401(k)s, abortion, youth football: 15 things we do now that will be considered unthinkable in 50 years - Vox https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18226563/50-years-wrong-side-of-history-future-prediction

Untold History of AI: Algorithmic Bias Was Born in the 1980s - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-the-birth-of-machine-bias

Psychic Healing at the End of History | Hannah Gais https://thebaffler.com/latest/psychic-healing-at-the-end-of-history-gais

Bad idea of the day: twitter except it just updates your local ~/.plan file & keeps no history

Band name of the day: a game called history

The History of Text Generation | http://mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/

Untold History of AI: When Charles Babbage Played Chess With the Original Mechanical Turk - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-charles-babbage-and-the-turk