The following account of the real origins of Cisco Systems, as opposed to the history often recounted in Cisco company literature, was written in 1999 by Tom Rindfleisch. Rindfleisch was Director of the SUMEX-AIM project (1973-1990), under which the software…

Multics was a mainframe time-sharing operating system begun in 1965 and used until 2000. It was a major influence on subsequent computer operating systems.

My last article about generic data structures in C was written to set the stage for today’s topic: A data structure with constant time indexing, stable pointers, and works well with arena allocators. Its been independently discovered by multiple programmers…

Looking around there are three candidates for "foundations of mathematics":
set theory
category theory
type theory
There is a seminal paper relating these three topics:

From Sets to Types to Cate...

A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation …

A simple-to-use compiler and Vite plugin to evaluate TypeScript expressions at build time.

Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may…

Perplexity was recently accused of scraping sites that had explicitly disallowed LLM crawlers in their robots.txt files. In the wake of…

An Inquiry into Zeros and Ones

Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Real-time tracking of dictionary coverage on the Bluesky social platform.

To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.

Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.

To commemorate Ozzy Osbourne, we take a deep dive into the obscure sources for the titling designs on Black Sabbath’s early album covers.

Gamers and developers are pushing the anti-censorship cause

Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One, 11 September 1773

Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…

Ars Technica mentioned that in macOS Tahoe the venerable old hard disk icons will be replaced with new, more generic, relatively less inte...

Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing forever