Bookmarks tagged “history”
89 bookmarks tagged “history”
Demystifying the #! (shebang): Kernel Adventures - Bruno Croci
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.
Piranesi’s Perspective Trick. This is a quick report explaining what… | by Bruno Postle | Medium
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…
How Fast the Days Are Getting Longer – Joe Antognini
Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...
This page is under construction - localghost
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace? - High Scalability -
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
The slow evaporation of the free/open source surplus – Baldur Bjarnason
Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
The 1 Hour per Year Bug (But Only in Pacific Time!)
:::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!…
Nintendo completely sat out the video game graphics wars. It’s winning anyway. - Sherwood News
What Nintendo lacks in fancy pixels, it makes up for in dopamine. That’s why it basically prints money.
AI Act is Here
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
Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer
What exists in the space between riffing and ripping
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)
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
The curious case of the missing period - Tjaart’s Substack
When Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is not simple
State of the Terminal | g.p. anders
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
We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
Can a programming language implement time travel? - Stack Overflow
Thomas Steeles unearths the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic S
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.
Every story in the world has one of these six basic plots - BBC Culture
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.
The Coolest Library on Earth | Hakai Magazine
At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future.