History of Declarative Programming
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My Git history was a mess of ’update’ and ’fix’ – so I made AI clean it up
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 git history, which is generally NOT recommended for shared repositories! When to use: Personal projects […]
52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history
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 back to the 1970s to get the data off. The news was posted to Mastodon […]
A History of Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) still feel a bit like magic to me. Of course, I understand the general machinery enough to know that they aren’t, but the gap between my outdated knowledge of the field and the state-of-the-art feels especially large right now. Things are moving fast. So six months ago, I decided to close […]
History of Telecommunications T-Carrier
2025-09-20 Few aspects of commercial telecommunications have quite the allure of the T-carrier. Well, to me, at least, but then I have very specific interests. T-carrier has this odd, enduring influence on discussion of internet connections. I remember that for years, some video game installers (perhaps those using Gamespy?) used to ask what kind of […]
History of the Gem Desktop Environment
How a gem was cut and then lost Sometime in 1988, the keyboard of my Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K was finally broken beyond repair, and I asked my parents for a 128K version of the same computer. Instead, they surprised me with an Atari 520 ST. It was my first real-world experience with a graphical […]
UTF-8 history (2003)
Rob Pike explains how Ken Thompson invented UTF-8 in one evening and how they together built the first system-wide implementation in less than a week. Subject: UTF-8 history From: ”Rob ’Commander’ Pike” Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 22:32:32 -0700 (Thu 06:32 BST) To: mkuhn (at) acm.org, henry (at) spsystems.net Cc: ken (at) entrisphere.com Looking around […]
A history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
Abstract From the very beginnings of our field in the late 18th century, psychiatrists have engaged, often extensively, in “metaphorical brain talk” – rephrasing descriptions of mental processes in unconfirmed brain metaphors (e.g., “diseased working of the brain convolutions”). In the late 19th century, Kraepelin criticized the later developments of such approaches, termed “brain mythology” […]
Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
Ars Technica mentioned that in macOS Tahoe the venerable old hard disk icons will be replaced with new, more generic, relatively less interesting equivalents. This process also apparently happens with Apple CEOs from time to time. If you are on Sequoia and want to keep them for posterity, you can get them out of /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources. […]
The History of F1 Design
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