Written by Bahaa Zidan 2024-04-25 History is very important. It helps keep our perspectives in check. This is how I remember the crazy journey that web development has gone through in the past few years. This is my telling of … Read more
Keyboard Builders’ Digest / A brief history of keyboard encoding Daniel shares with us some of the fruits of research into computer keyboard history conducted over recent years. In this case, the surprising variety of methods by which keyboards determined … Read more
12-20-2013 10:12PM (ET) In response to the recent revelations about the NSA backdooring RSA libraries I’ve compiled a brief, incomplete, history of NSA backdoors. Help me make it better by emailing corrections and additions to [email protected]. Update: added Actel backdoor, … Read more
A government agent uses an NSA IBM 360/85 console in 1971 (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/NSA). It’s been a weird week for America’s most valuable company—a firm whose tech products have such consumer goodwill they got away with forcing us to listen … Read more
1801 – Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave “hello, world” into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion, concurrency, or proper capitalization. 1842 – … Read more
On 27 March 2017, Apple made one of its biggest corporate gambles. When it rolled out iOS 10.3 that day, the installer silently converted the storage in each iPhone and iPad to the first release of Apple’s new file system, … Read more
In 2002 Thomas Hertog received an email summoning him to the office of his mentor Stephen Hawking. The young researcher rushed to Hawking’s room at Cambridge. “His eyes were radiant with excitement,” Hertog recalls. Typing on the computer-controlled voice system … Read more
Probably the most ubiquitous of all circuits – certainly of the Diode Clipping circuits – you have Ibanez’s or Maxon’s original green 808 Tube Screamer – with Soft Symmetrical Clipping courtesy of the JNR4558 OpAmp’s Feedback Loop – as illustrated … Read more
A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout GitHub icon Hassam: How different would tcl be had you stayed on with the development team? 🙂 Dr. Ousterhout: I don’t think it would have been very different. Tcl was quite mature … Read more
