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Bookmarks tagged “history”

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:41 +0000

89 bookmarks tagged “history”

Demystifying the #! (shebang): Kernel Adventures - Bruno Croci

Saved on 2025-04-19 · crocidb.com

Clarifying the shebang (#!) mechanism: A step-by-step look using strace and kernel code shows how Linux handles script execution directly, revealing the shell isn't involved initially.

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Piranesi’s Perspective Trick. This is a quick report explaining what… | by Bruno Postle | Medium

Saved on 2025-04-06 · medium.com

This is a quick report explaining what I have been doing with some research on what I started to call ‘Piranesi’s perspective trick’. In the past I would have written this up as an academic paper…

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How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer – Joe Antognini

Saved on 2025-03-29 · joe-antognini.github.io

Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...

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This page is under construction - localghost

Saved on 2025-03-07 · localghost.dev

If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.

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Unicode is harder than you think · mcilloni's blog

Saved on 2025-01-06 · mcilloni.ovh

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An Ode to Deluxe Paint | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2024-09-07 · datagubbe.se

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Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -

Saved on 2024-09-07 · highscalability.com

Robert Scoble wrote a fascinating case study, MySpace’s death spiral: insiders say it’s due to bets on Los Angeles and Microsoft, where he reports MySpace insiders blame the Microsoft stack on why they lost the great social network race to Facebook. Does anyone know if this is t

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The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason

Saved on 2024-09-07 · baldurbjarnason.com

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

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The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)

Saved on 2024-08-31 · tomeraberba.ch

:::note This article was updated in response to some helpful comments on Hacker News. I originally incorrectly formatted the Pacific Time Zone daylight saving times relative to the Eastern Time Zone!…

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Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types? – Daniels Networking Blog

Saved on 2024-08-31 · lostintransit.se

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Nintendo completely sat out the video game graphics wars. It’s winning anyway. - Sherwood News

Saved on 2024-08-31 · sherwood.news

What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money.

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AI Act is Here

Saved on 2024-08-20 · alvaromontoro.com

The European Union enabled the Artificial Intelligence Act, the first-ever legal framework on AI, addressing its risks and positioning Europe as a leader in AI legislation. This article reviews the AI Act, the different risk categories, and how (and when) it will impact developme

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The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art | datagubbe.se

Saved on 2024-08-11 · datagubbe.se

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Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer

Saved on 2024-08-06 · matthewstrom.com

What exists in the space between riffing and ripping

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Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)

Saved on 2024-07-20 · samcurry.net

Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from th

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The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack

Saved on 2024-06-05 · tjaart.substack.com

When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple

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State of the Terminal | g.p. anders

Saved on 2024-05-25 · gpanders.com

This is a companion article to my talk at Neovimconf 2023. I have been using Vim/Neovim as my full time text editor for close to 10 years. I’ve spent a lot of time in the terminal and have become very aware of the many flaws and idiosyncrasies of this bizarre platform. But I also

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We Need To Rewild The Internet

Saved on 2024-05-19 · noemamag.com

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

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The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

Saved on 2024-04-16 · predr.ag

The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.

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Community products: Reflections and looking ahead - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-04-10 · stackoverflow.blog

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Can a programming language implement time travel? - Stack Overflow

Saved on 2024-02-26 · stackoverflow.blog

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Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic S

Saved on 2024-02-20 · itsnicethat.com

An extract from the designer’s recent publication Comic Sans, Is it Really That Bad? delves into the history of the contentious font, uncovering the story of its creation and early uses.

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glandium.org » Blog Archive » How I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla

Saved on 2023-12-14 · glandium.org

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Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots - BBC Culture

Saved on 2023-11-20 · bbc.com

Researchers analysed over 1700 novels to reveal six story types – but can they be applied to our most-loved tales? Miriam Quick takes a look.

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The Coolest Library on Earth | Hakai Magazine

Saved on 2023-08-10 · hakaimagazine.com

At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future.

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Bookmarks tagged “history”

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:41 +0000

89 bookmarks tagged “history”

Happy 50th birthday, Ethernet | APNIC Blog

Saved on 2023-07-14 · blog.apnic.net

Why has Ethernet endured as a ubiquitous data framing protocol over all these years?

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Big Tech’s Biggest Bets (Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform)

Saved on 2023-06-11 · matthewball.co

Meta’s Reality Labs losses may be eye-watering, but such investments aren’t rare - and they’re looking increasingly essential to building (or disrupting) a billion user platform.

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A Backup of Historical Proportions - CHM

Saved on 2023-05-18 · computerhistory.org

Discover what surprises await in CHM's release of the Xerox PARC file system archive.

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Will ChatGPT spark the next financial bubble? | by Michael F. Buckley | UX

Saved on 2023-03-24 · uxdesign.cc

Revolutionary technology will always be synonymous with a new way to get rich. With the current growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is fair to say we are looking at another technology gold…

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever H

Saved on 2023-03-24 · hunterwalk.medium.com

In retrospect the fact we were all day trading tech stocks from Stanford’s computer labs probably suggested it was a bit of a bubble, although eToys options did pay for two consecutive Spring Break…

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The Rise and Fall of the Dot-Com Foosball Table | by Clive Thompson | Mar,

Saved on 2023-03-24 · clivethompson.medium.com

Back during the dot-com boom of the late 90s, if you visited one of the then-hot startups in San Francisco — or other major US cities like New York — there was an emerging workplace aesthetic. Ties…

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The Day the Dotcom Bust Began. The lesson we still refuse to learn… | by Do

Saved on 2023-03-24 · rushkoff.medium.com

The Internet changed for me on the morning of January 10, 2000, when an editor from the New York Times called to ask if I could bang out an OpEd by that afternoon. I was thrilled. The culture of the…

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The Original Apocalypse:. 5 Lessons from the Dot-Com Crash | by Jeff Fluhr

Saved on 2023-03-24 · medium.com

Startup lessons from the dotcom crash of 2000 are relevant again today in the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis.

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Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid

Saved on 2022-12-01 · theatlantic.com

It’s not just a phase.

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The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? | WIRED

Saved on 2022-11-17 · wired.com

A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There's no closing Pandora's text box now.

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Amazon and the Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’ - The Atlantic

Saved on 2022-11-13 · theatlantic.com

Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

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How fateful?

Saved on 2022-11-13 · chan.co.za

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The Twisted Life of Clippy | Seattle Met

Saved on 2022-11-13 · seattlemet.com

In the ’90s, Microsoft created a cartoon paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.

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DOC • A brief history of the numeric keypad

Saved on 2022-11-13 · doc.cc

Picture the keypad of a telephone and calculator side by side. Can you see the subtle difference between the two without resorting to your smartphone? Don’t worry if you can’t recall the design. Most of us are so used to accepting the common interfaces that we tend to overlook th

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Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? - Stack Overflow Blog

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Why SOLID principles are still the foundation for modern software architect

Saved on 2022-11-13 · stackoverflow.blog

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Why are hyperlinks blue?

Saved on 2022-11-13 · blog.mozilla.org

We took a deep dive into the history of interfaces and link designs over the years to track down the origin of the blue link we know today.

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History of the Web: Part 1

Saved on 2022-11-13 · matthewgerstman.com

Today I'm going to share twenty years of context on the web. We'll talk about how the web evolved into what we have today, and why it makes building web applications so hard in 2021.

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Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web (1991)

Saved on 2021-01-14 · danielkehoe.com

30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.

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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

Saved on 2020-02-13 · washingtonpost.com

U.S. and German intelligence agencies partnered on a scheme to dupe dozens of nations into buying rigged encryption systems — taking their money and stealing their secrets.

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htop explained | peteris.rocks

Saved on 2019-11-18 · peteris.rocks

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

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I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb - VICE

Saved on 2019-11-06 · vice.com

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

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Council Post: 13 Tech Experts Predict The Next Big Trend In Software Develo

Saved on 2019-10-23 · forbes.com

Members of Forbes Technology Council share their predictions for upcoming trends in software development.

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Is Amazon Unstoppable?

Saved on 2019-10-23 · newyorker.com

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back, Charles Duhigg writes.

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Chernobyl DevOps: Software Engineering, Disaster Management, and Observability

Saved on 2019-10-08 · medium.com

Or at least, that’s the story that operators working for FirstEnergy in a power substation in Wadsworth, Ohio, just a few miles southwest of Akron, had in front of them. All systems seemed…

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Bookmarks tagged “history”

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:30:41 +0000

89 bookmarks tagged “history”

Pando: Move fast, break things: The sad story of Platform, Facebook’s gigan

Saved on 2019-09-26 · pando.com

Democratizing career progression

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Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository | July 2

Saved on 2019-08-26 · cacm.acm.org

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Ronald Fisher, a Bad Cup of Tea, and the Birth of Modern Statistics | Science History Institute

Saved on 2019-08-08 · sciencehistory.org

A lesson in humility begets a scientific revolution.

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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence

Saved on 2019-07-25 · waitbutwhy.com

Part 1 of 2: "The Road to Superintelligence". Artificial Intelligence — the topic everyone in the world should be talking about.

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The Secret History of Women in Coding

Saved on 2019-04-11 · nytimes.com

Computer programming once had much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong?

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The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster - War Is Boring - Medium

Saved on 2018-09-11 · medium.com

The F-35 still has a long way to go before it will be ready for combat. That was the parting message of Michael Gilmore, the now-retired Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, in his last…

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The Secret History of SEAL Team 6: Quiet Killings and Blurred Lines - NYTim

Saved on 2015-06-07 · nytimes.com

The unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been converted into a global manhunting machine with limited outside oversight.

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One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

Saved on 2015-02-11 · medium.com

On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization’s annual conference. Maryana Pinchuk and Steven Walling addressed a packed room as…

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Can the Internet Be Archived?

Saved on 2015-01-24 · newyorker.com

The Web wasn’t built to preserve its past; the Wayback Machine aims to remedy that. Jill Lepore on the ethereal nature of the Web.

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The Overprotected Kid - The Atlantic

Saved on 2014-12-24 · theatlantic.com

A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk-taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution.

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What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com

Saved on 2014-12-18 · nytimes.com

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

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Is coding the new literacy?

Saved on 2014-06-22 · motherjones.com

Why America's schools need to train a generation of hackers.

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Wu-Tang, Atomically «

Saved on 2014-03-28 · grantland.com

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The Anatomy of a Search Engine

Saved on 2011-04-12 · infolab.stanford.edu

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