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Lingering in public memory is McNamara as US secretary of defense—the architect of America’s escalation in Vietnam and, for a time, one of the most vilified figures in the country. Then, for a thin slice of development specialists, Robert McNamara … Read more

The following is a guest post by Elizabeth Davidson, a Reference Librarian in the Serial and Government Publications Division.  Obituaries as we know them today are rich records of a person’s life. They might include the full name of the … Read more

Error code 7 is ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED. What does this mean? It sounds like a heavy metal band ran amok and made a mess of the performance area that they rented. This error message was inherited from MS-DOS. MS-DOS internally kept track … Read more

I previously discussed how the main codebase at Google enforces strict tooling and conventions to allow the codebase to scale. For many years, there was one glaring exception: the IDE. Context: I worked at Google from 2011 to 2024. Some … Read more

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AI-powered git commit message rewriter using GPT Automatically rewrite your entire git commit history with better, conventional commit messages using AI. Perfect for cleaning up messy commit histories before open-sourcing projects or improving repository maintainability. Important Disclaimer This tool rewrites … Read more

A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it … Read more