Digital Deluge

Highlights

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

2021

• Why I no longer trust Github (11 July 2021)
• Intel Continues to Rehire Veterans: At Some Point They’ll Run Out (7 July 2021)
• Community Power Part 1: Misconceptions (11 June 2021): leadership within one open source project
• Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (1 June 2021)
• Designers gone wild: most bizarre functioning computers (23 April 2021)
• Ai Mid 2021. Self Driving Car Meets Reality. (12 May 2021)
• An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git (28 April 2021)
• Why AI is Harder Than We Think (26 April 2021)
• Interview with curl creator and Swedish software developer Daniel Stenberg (21 March 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.
• Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You (2 March 2021)
• How Bitcoin's vast energy use could burst its bubble (27 February 2021)
• Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program (February 2021)
• 5 reasons why I love coding on Linux (13 February 2021)
• The terminal, the console and the shell - what are they? (13 January 2021)
• Falsehoods programmers believe about… Biometrics (9 January 2021)

2020

• Fixing a Bug in 38 Year Old Software (13 December 2020)
• The magic slab of glass that contains all my friends… or not (9 December 2020)
• Silicon Graphics: Gone But Not Forgotten (5 December 2020)
• 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)
• Argument processing in Unix and Windows (2 November 2020)
• The Birth of UNIX with Brian Kernighan (1 November 2020)
• on abandoning the X server (28 October 2020)
• When "progress" is backwards (20 October 2020)
• Open Standards Are Simple (13 August 2020)
• Jira Is A Microcosm Of What’s Broken In Software Development (12 August 2020)
• Code Only Says What it Does (23 June 2020)
• History of FreeBSD Part 1: Unix and BSD (12 June 2020)
• IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology (8 June 2020)
• Most tech content is bullshit (7 June 2020)
• 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.
• Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY (10 May 2020)
• Introducing Inkscape 1.0 (4 May 2020)
• You’d have to be crazy to rewrite GIMP in anything — Interview with Ell (2 May 2020)
• A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained (April 2020)
• Unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows (14 April 2020)
• I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future (12 January 2020)

2019

• My Business Card Runs Linux (23 December 2019)
• Silicon Valley hasn’t innovated since 1978 (21 November 2019)
• ACLU: Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Linked Athletes To Mugshots (22 October 2019)
• Computer historians crack passwords of Unix's early pioneers (10 October 2019)
• Richard Stallman Does Not and Cannot Speak for the Free Software Movement (16 September 2019)
• A computer built from NOR gates: inside the Apollo Guidance Computer (September 2019)
• Free Software and Failed Ideals (September 2019)
• Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection (23 August 2019)
• Moscow's blockchain voting system cracked a month before election (20 August 2019)
• Google’s algorithm for detecting hate speech is racially biased (13 August 2019)
• Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye (7 August 2019)
• Fitbits, other wearables may not accurately track heart rates in people of color (24 July 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)
• 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)
• The Slashdot Interview with FreeDOS founder Jim Hall
• Samsung accidentally makes the case for not owning a smart TV (17 June 2019)
• The reckoning: a manifesto for Code 2019 (10 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)
• What’s wrong with the Raspberry Pi (2 February 2019)
• Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant (27 January 2019)
• Extending Interactivity (24 January 2019)
• Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns (January 2019)

2018

• “Help, I want to move my webcomic to an independent host using WordPress, how do I start??” (December 2018)
• Discovering Interactivity (13 December 2018)
• Amazon’s Disturbing Plan to Add Face Surveillance to Your Front Door (12 December 2018)
• What makes BeOS and Haiku unique (30 November 2018)
• Report: Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users (15 November 2018)
• The Source History of Cat (12 November 2018)
• Systemd is bad parsing and should feel bad (October 2018)
• Where Vim Came From (5 August 2018)
• On FOSS as a capitalism-like structure (8 June 2018)
• 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)

2017

• Interviewing Jörn Proda aka “Prodatron”, SymbOS creator and retro enthusiast (23 December 2017)
• Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply (December 2017)
• Waking Up From Electric Dreams (December 2017)
• The history of *nix package management (15 August 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)
• Fonts on Unix (4 June 2017)
• Silicon Jungle’ now free via PG: Read about Kaypro, WordStar, Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘2010’ modem connection (15 March 2017)

2016

• Wrong things that programmers believe, a curated list (18 October 2016)
• Interesting Photos of Computer Stores in the 1970s and 1980s (October 2016)
• How to choose your *BSD OS to begin with? (20 August 2016)
• Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer (June 2016)

2015

• Taking OpenStreetMap into the Field (18 December 2015)
• How Machines Write Poetry (15 December 2015)
• The History of Text Generation (15 December 2015)
• JPeg lockdown: Restriction options sought by committee (15 October 2015)
• Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks (13 October 2015)
• Examining the core memory module inside a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe (August 2015)
• A Constructive Look At TempleOS (8 June 2015)
• Peripherals Behind The Iron Curtain (13 April 2015)

2014

• Home Computers Behind The Iron Curtain (15 December 2014)
• The story of Grace Hopper (aka Amazing Grace) (9 December 2014)
• Barack Obama just became the first US president to write a computer program (8 December 2014)
• Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (November 2014)
• NVIDIA's new GPU proves moon landing truthers wrong (18 September 2014)
• Please don't use externally hosted JavaScript libraries (30 June 2014)
• The revenge of QWERTY (25 June 2014)
• Destructive DRM Strikes Again: Creative Professionals Blocked From Using Adobe Products For Days (18 May 2014)
• Things that drive me nuts about OpenGL (May 2014)
• Samsung NX300 Gets Rooted (14 May 2014)

2013

• https://www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blog/20131211/index.html (11 December 2013)
• 56 Unique Lorem Ipsum Generators (11 July 2013)
• MPEG1 Video Decoder in JavaScript (May 2013)
• Open Source Is Old School, Says The GitHub Generation (15 May 2013)
• Adam “Always Online” Orth no longer employed at Microsoft (April 2013)
• IT Security in a Nutshell (14 April 2013)
• An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay (2 April 2013)
• Steve Mann: My “Augmediated” Life (1 March 2013)
• The Reality of Developer's Life (February 2013)
• The impending crisis that is Windows XP and IE 8 (January 2013)
• Sell Microsoft NOW! Game Over - Ballmer Loses (20 January 2013)

2012

• CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines (December 2012)
• To understand the command line... (30 September 2012)
• Homebrew 68k extravaganza (4 September 2012)

2007-2011

• Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings (29 July 2011)
• Taco Bell Programming (October 2010)
• Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (17 June 2010)
• Realtime Raytracing in Javascript! (2 June 2010)
• Exceptions vs. error returns, quantified (21 January 2009)
• Gates sends angry e-mail, sounds just like a customer (25 June 2008)
• A day without X (21 May 2007)

Unsorted

• Abigail's regex to test for prime numbers (1 June 2000)
• The History of DOS
• How Machines Write Poetry
• CAD software history CAD CAM computer aided design
• DEC WARS!
• History of UNIX Manpages
• Here is why vim uses hjkl keys as arrow keys
• The Most Famous Image in the Early History of Computing
• Bitcoin Mining Consumes More Electricity Than New Zealand, Report Finds
• Now that's what I call a Hacker
• The Balanced Ternary Machines of Soviet Russia
• html - RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags - Stack Overflow
• Everything is Broken
• The Generation Ship Model of Software Development
• scale a vector? get length of vector? - Game Programming - GameDev.net
• Programming Sucks
• Explorations in Unix
• 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
• GParted -- How-to Fix Invalid MSDOS Partition Tables
• 6502.org: Homebuilt Projects
• Hackers Use A Refrigerator To Attack Businesses
• The Codeless Code: Case 135 Ass-Backwards Compatibility
• Fixing Error Messages About Missing GTK Library Files
• Barbie typewriter
• What is software engineering
• Interview with Andrew Tanenbaum
• If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today
• always bet on text
• The Fascinating World of Linux System Calls
• Neural Network on a Commodore 64 (4 September 1987)
• Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be
• Software compatibility and our own "User-Agent" problem
• The Comprehensive List of Window Managers for Unix
• The Silicon Valley quest to preserve Stephen Hawking’s voice
• Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster
• Series: Unix as IDE
• Blackberry 10 macht E-Mail-Passworte für NSA und GCHQ zugreifbar
• The curious case of the disappearing Polish S
• Software disenchantment
• I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
• Haiku Beta: The release heard around the world
• Les enceintes connectées font peur... à deux tiers des Français qui les utilisent
• The Joy in Csh & Vi
• No, You Don’t Need to Uninstall VLC
• Our Software Dependency Problem
• What Does It Take to Keep a Classic Mainframe Alive?
• Your calendrical fallacy is thinking…