This timeline started with Teitelman’s History of Interlisp. The Bibliography has a wealth of additional historical information.
1960s Through the 1960s, the languages of programming were primarily Fortran and assembly. Lisp enabled expressing recursion simply.…

HTML Spirograph is a digital remake of the originally mechanic device which creates amazing drawings with unlimited variations. Pick a random drawing, or set the parameters manually, and let's draw it with HTML spirograph. Enjoy!

This is the Part 2 of a series. Feel free to read the prequel for more context: Building the fastest Lua interpreter automatically Building a good VM for a dynamic language takes a ton of engineerin

A distributed thread-per-core document database. Contribute to tontinton/dbeel development by creating an account on GitHub.

If Instagram and Facebook users want to withdraw their consent, they have to buy an expensive subscription

A Fake Operating System Interface made in Godot! Contribute to popcar2/GodotOS development by creating an account on GitHub.

Random notes from my unsuccessful attempt to get this weblog onto Mastodon.

Twitch, an Amazon-owned livestreaming service, announced Wednesday it is laying off 500 employees.

Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but…

After years of delays, victims of one of the U.K.’s worst miscarriages of justice are finally being exonerated — thanks to a TV drama.

Elixir is a dynamically-typed functional language running on the Erlang Virtual Machine, designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Its characteristics have earned it a surging adoption by hundreds of industrial actors and tens of thousands…

Alexander Petros give a thoughtful exploration of htmx's relationship to traditional JavaScript frameworks, examining how its HTML-first approach and narrow focus on network requests sets it apart. He argues that while htmx exhibits framework-like qualities…

Not long ago I was part of a discussion about using mechanical things to demonstrate computing concepts (such as building a learning Tic-Tac-Toe game out of matchboxes). This got my head spinning on …