(What is this? a monthly curated list of articles, blog posts, news items, essays, archival material, sometimes-now-defunct-links, etc, to do with programming, and computing in general)
What the _Apollo Guidance Computer_ looked like
Applying the lessons of the Golang scheduler to the Tokio scheduler in Rust
Speeding up Nixpkgs by avoiding subshells
Pessimism about engineering software
The Racket programming language is heading in a newdirection
Ben Lynn’s “most functional compiler”
Someone tries TLA+ and comes away impressed
Something recommended by a co-worker: CMU 15-721, a course on Advanced Database Systems
Matt Godbolt (of Compiler Explorer) on “why C++ isn’t dead”)
Comparing APL and C (!)
Remembering the era of Flash
Clojure at “the immutable bank”
Shareware and floppy disks …
Reminiscing about different versions of Microsoft
I recently discovered all the different “server-less options in GCP”
Looking back at the first version of Redis, written in … wait for it … in Tcl !!
A periodic reminder about microkernels
Why text editing is so hard to implement
(Re-)Assembling the Apollo Guidance Computer (!)