Digital Deluge

Highlights

• The Little Printf
• The Plain Text Project
• The Floating-Point Guide - What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

• I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future (12 January 2020)
• The Silicon Valley quest to preserve Stephen Hawking’s voice (18 March 2018)
• Silicon Jungle’ now free via PG: Read about Kaypro, WordStar, Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2010’ modem connection (15 March 2017)
• always bet on text (13 October 2014)
• If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (19 February 2012)

Community

• Computer Systems as Social Networks (23 September 2021)
• FreeBSD now allows hugs! (26 June 2021)
• Community Power Part 1: Misconceptions (11 June 2021): leadership within one open source project
• Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation (15 May 2013)

Personalities

• Knuth On Dijkstra (31 March 2014)
• An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay (2 April 2013)
• Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life (1 March 2013)

Privacy and security

• Privacy Myth 1 - We Are Not Collecting Personal Data (17 September 2021)
• Malware samples found trying to hack Windows from its Linux subsystem (16 September 2021)
• Age Verification In The Online Safety Bill (27 July 2021)
• Falsehoods programmers believe about… Biometrics (9 January 2021)
• Dutch journalist gatecrashes EU defence video conference (22 November 2020)
• New lawsuit: Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use? (14 November 2020)
• Your Computer Isn't Yours (12 November 2020)
• Le droit à l’anonymat est une nécessité démocratique (20 February 2020)

• Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection (23 August 2019)
• Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election (21 August 2019)
• No, You Don’t Need to Uninstall VLC (23 July 2019)
• Samsung accidentally makes the case for not owning a smart TV (17 June 2019)
• Comcast is reportedly developing a smart speaker that would track your bathroom habits (21 May 2019)
• Does Google meet its users’ expectations around consumer privacy? This news industry research says no (April 2019)
• Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us (April 2019)
• Is Anyone Listening to You on Alexa? A Global Team Reviews Audio (10 April 2019)
• Endlessh: an SSH Tarpit (22 March 2019)
• Why Phone Numbers Stink As Identity Proof (March 2019)

• Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door (12 December 2018)
• Report: Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users (15 November 2018)
• Reddit user made famous off celeb nude photos wants his privacy back (8 September 2014)
• Samsung NX300 Gets Rooted (14 May 2014)
• CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines (12 April 2014)
• Hackers Use A Refrigerator To Attack Businesses (January 2014)
• IT Security in a Nutshell (14 April 2013)

• Blackberry 10 macht E-Mail-Passworte für NSA und GCHQ zugreifbar
• Les enceintes connectées font peur... à deux tiers des Français qui les utilisent

Digital business ethics

• Dream Cats NFT: don't buy them (22 September 2021)
• Why I no longer trust Github (11 July 2021)
• Here Is The Article You Can Send To People When They Say “but The Environmental Issues With Cryptoart Will Be Solved Soon, Right?” (4 March 2021) Cryptocurrencies and NFTs are an absolute disaster for so many more reasons than the ecological.
• How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble (27 February 2021)
• Microsoft loves Linux — a little too much? (20 May 2020): just in case you were wondering what Microsoft can do now that they own GitHub.
• Richard Stallman Does Not and Cannot Speak for the Free Software Movement (16 September 2019)
• Free Software and Failed Ideals (September 2019)
• Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar (30 June 2019)
• Microsoft is about to shut off its ebook DRM servers: "The books will stop working" (28 June 2019)
• Bitcoin Mining Consumes More Electricity Than New Zealand, Report Finds (7 June 2019)
• "Ethics" and Ethics (11 April 2019)
• Optimize what? (15 March 2019)
• On FOSS as a capitalism-like structure (8 June 2018)
• Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be (8 December 2017)
• Destructive DRM Strikes Again: Creative Professionals Blocked From Using Adobe Products For Days (18 May 2014)
• Adam “Always Online” Orth no longer employed at Microsoft (April 2013)
• Programmer Interrupted (19 January 2013)

Artificial intelligence

• Ai Mid 2021. Self Driving Car Meets Reality. (12 May 2021)
• Why AI is Harder Than We Think (26 April 2021)
• IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology (8 June 2020)
• Tesla Autopilot crash driver 'was playing video game' (26 February 2020)
• Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Programmed to Spot Jaywalkers (5 November 2019)
• ACLU: Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Linked Athletes To Mugshots (22 October 2019)
• Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased (13 August 2019)
• Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars (10 April 2019)
• Autonomous cars are not ready for public deployment (15 February 2019)
• A Basic Lack of Understanding (30 March 2018)
• Waking Up From Electric Dreams (December 2017)
• Why you'll never make really big money as an AI dev (21 July 2017)
• How to make a racist AI without really trying (13 July 2017)
• How Machines Write Poetry (15 December 2015)
• Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks (13 October 2015)

Software

• Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (25 July 2021)
• Interview with curl creator and Swedish software developer Daniel Stenberg (21 March 2021)
• Git is simply too hard (16 November 2020) Oh, really? Who designed a tool not really meant to serve human needs in the first place? Funny how in Bazaar, those two questions are trivially answered: you undo a commit with bzr uncommit, and you delete a branch… just like any old directory, because that’s all it is. Nerds..
• Introducing Inkscape 1.0 (4 May 2020)
• The reckoning: a manifesto for Code 2019 (10 June 2019)
• The Story of XEmacs (19 February 2019)
• Our Software Dependency Problem (23 January 2019)
• The Source History of Cat (12 November 2018)
• Software disenchantment (17 September 2018)
• Software compatibility and our own "User-Agent" problem (December 2017)

Programming

• Interlude: Resource Systems (07 October 2021)
• Designing Low Upkeep Software (25 September 2021)
• My tiny side project has had more impact than my decade in the software industry (1 August 2021)
• Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads — here's why (2 August 2021)
• Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources (31 July 2021)
• Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You (2 March 2021)
• Modern software controls dependencies because it helps software authors (20 February 2021)
• Fixing a Bug in 38 Year Old Software (13 December 2020)
• Jira Is A Microcosm Of What’s Broken In Software Development (12 August 2020)
• Code Only Says What it Does (23 June 2020)

• Your calendrical fallacy is thinking…

• Wrong things that programmers believe, a curated list (18 October 2016)
• Habitability and Piecemeal Growth [in software] (19 September 2016)
• I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next (5 August 2016
• Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (November 2014)
• The Generation Ship Model of Software Development (9 July 2014)
• Everything is Broken (20 May 2014)
• Things that drive me nuts about OpenGL (May 2014)
• Programming Sucks (27 April 2014)
• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (18 January 2014)
• The Reality of Developer's Life (February 2013)
• Series: Unix as IDE (9 February 2012)
• flex - How can I pass the string "Null" through WSDL (SOAP) from AS3 to ColdFusion web service without receiving a "missing parameter error"? - Stack Overflow (16 December 2010)
• Taco Bell Programming (October 2010)
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (17 June 2010)
• Realtime Raytracing in Javascript! (2 June 2010)
• html - RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags - Stack Overflow (13 November 2009)
• Exceptions vs. error returns, quantified (21 January 2009)

• Abigail's regex to test for prime numbers (1 June 2000)
• What is software engineering (1992)
• Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (4 September 1987)

Operating systems

• Linus Torvalds on Community, Rust and Linux’s Longevity (1 October 2021)
• What the GNU (26 September 2021)
• Building an Alternative Ecosystem (14 September 2021)
• Useless use of GNU (25 August 2021)
• I’m not sure that UNIX won (16 May 2021)
• The terminal, the console and the shell - what are they? (13 January 2021)
• on abandoning the X server (28 October 2020)
• Computer historians crack passwords of Unix's early pioneers (10 October 2019)
• Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye (7 August 2019)
• Systemd is bad parsing and should feel bad (October 2018)
• Fonts on Unix (4 June 2017)
• An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (28 April 2021)
• 5 reasons why I love coding on Linux (13 February 2021)
• Argument processing in Unix and Windows (2 November 2020)
• The Birth of UNIX with Brian Kernighan (1 November 2020)
• History of FreeBSD Part 1: Unix and BSD (12 June 2020)
• The Slashdot Interview with FreeDOS founder Jim Hall
• Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (27 January 2019)
• What makes BeOS and Haiku unique (30 November 2018)
• Interviewing Jörn Proda aka “Prodatron”, SymbOS creator and retro enthusiast (23 December 2017)
• The history of *nix package management (15 August 2017)
• How to choose your *BSD OS to begin with? (20 August 2016)
• A Constructive Look At TempleOS (8 June 2015)
• God's Lonely Programmer (25 November 2014) Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God.
• The Birth of Standard Error (11 December 2013)
• The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 (January 2013)
• Sell Microsoft NOW! Game Over - Ballmer Loses (20 January 2013)
• To understand the command line... (30 September 2012)
• A day without X (21 May 2007)

• The History of DOS
• History of UNIX Manpages
• The Fascinating World of Linux System Calls
• Explorations in Unix
• Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum
• Haiku Beta: The release heard around the world
• The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix

Hardware

• The I****e Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists (6 October 2021)
• Intel Continues to Rehire Veterans: At Some Point They’ll Run Out (7 July 2021)
• Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (1 June 2021)
• Designers gone wild: most bizarre functioning computers (23 April 2021)
• Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program (February 2021)
• The Genius of RISC-V Microprocessors (December 2020)
• Silicon Graphics: Gone But Not Forgotten (5 December 2020)
• A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained (April 2020)
• My Business Card Runs Linux (23 December 2019)
• A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer (September 2019)
• Apple warns its new credit card shouldn't go in your wallet — or your pocket or purse (22 August 2019)
• Looking inside a 1970s PROM chip that stores data in microscopic fuses (July 2019)
• Software woven into wire: Core rope and the Apollo Guidance Computer (July 2019)
• What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi (2 February 2019)
• Steve Wozniak Talks Disk ][ (19 May 2018)
• Retro Computer Badge for Hackaday Belgrade Has Everything You Wished for Back in the Day (15 May 2018)
• Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply (December 2017)
• Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer (June 2016)
• Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe (August 2015)
• The Balanced Ternary Machines of Soviet Russia (21 November 2016)
• NVIDIA's new GPU proves moon landing truthers wrong (18 September 2014)
• ChhopskyTech™: A laptop dies, an idea lives, and I nearly get sued by Apple. (11 August 2014)
• Homebrew 68k extravaganza (4 September 2012)
• 6502.org: Homebuilt Projects
• What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?

2020

• The magic slab of glass that contains all my friends… or not (9 December 2020)
• When "progress" is backwards (20 October 2020)
• Open Standards Are Simple (13 August 2020)
• Most tech content is bullshit (7 June 2020)
• Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY (10 May 2020)

2015

• Taking OpenStreetMap into the Field (18 December 2015)
• JPeg lockdown: Restriction options sought by committee (15 October 2015)
• The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2 February 2015)