Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading (2024-05)

How to Copy a File From a 30-year-old Laptop (unterminated.com)

L 41 pts 7 comments by brouberol May 31, 2024 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Place of Postgres in History (youtube.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by eatonphil May 31, 2024 databaseshistoricalvideo Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

25 Years of Krita (krita.org)

L 36 pts 3 comments by calvin May 31, 2024 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GitHub's Missing Tab (hezmatt.org)

L 32 pts 27 comments by ellie May 31, 2024 culture Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Rill - Library for Simpler Concurrency in Go (github.com)

L 8 pts 2 comments by veqq May 30, 2024 go Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

What are you reading these days?

~ 20 pts 62 comments by unknown May 30, 2024 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

How I run a software book club (notes.eatonphil.com)

L 20 pts 4 comments by pushcx May 30, 2024 culture Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Five Years Running a News Site on JAMStack (blog.carlana.net)

L 28 pts 2 comments by carlana May 30, 2024 gohistoricaljavascriptweb Web Development Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Book borrowed from Finnish library returned eighty-four years late – copy of Arthur Conan Doyle's Refugees was due to be returned month after USSR invaded Finland (theguardian.com)

~ 13 pts 0 comments by unknown May 29, 2024 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Inside a vintage aerospace navigation computer of uncertain purpose (righto.com)

L 11 pts 0 comments by calvin May 29, 2024 hardwarehistorical Gaming / Retro Computing Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Refurb weekend: Canon Cat (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

L 23 pts 9 comments by classichasclass May 28, 2024 hardwarehistorical Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Another Year With Decker (beyondloom.com)

L 40 pts 5 comments by Internet_Janitor May 26, 2024 aplartplt Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Seeing Like a Data Structure (belfercenter.org)

L 7 pts 11 comments by Bunny351 May 26, 2024 culturevibecoding AI / Machine Learning Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

JQuickTake: Java-based app to manage vintage Apple QuickTake 100/150 cameras (github.com)

L 10 pts 0 comments by classichasclass May 26, 2024 hardwarehistoricalreversing Systems / Low-Level / OS Apple / macOS / iOS Gaming / Retro Computing Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

GRC SpinRite (computer.rip)

L 16 pts 5 comments by eBPF May 26, 2024 hardwarehistorical Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Converting a Cisco 7609 into a beer tap (2021) (blog.jonasbengtson.se)

L 13 pts 0 comments by inverse May 25, 2024 art Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

russh: Rust SSH client & server library (github.com)

L 20 pts 16 comments by lthms May 25, 2024 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Linux as the new developer default at 37signals (world.hey.com)

L 11 pts 11 comments by toastal May 25, 2024 culturelinux Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

"Recommend a nonfiction book" - Book reviews

~ 19 pts 18 comments by unknown May 24, 2024 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Not quite Open Source (1999) (lwn.net)

L 10 pts 6 comments by pmc May 24, 2024 historicallawvcs Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

ndindex: A Python library for manipulating indices of ndarrays (quansight-labs.github.io)

L 4 pts 0 comments by ngoldbaum May 24, 2024 python Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 days (graphite.dev)

L 42 pts 14 comments by rjzak May 24, 2024 historicalvcs Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Papers with Code RSS Feeds (jamesg.blog)

L -4 pts 3 comments by capjamesg May 23, 2024 culture Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Go's old $GOPATH story for development and dependencies (utcc.utoronto.ca)

L 5 pts 0 comments by carlana May 22, 2024 gohistorical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Book recommendation for new programmers

L 37 pts 50 comments by c-- May 22, 2024 askeducation Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I know someone who is currently learning to program: they are nearing the end of a short college course. For their birthday, they requested Robert Martin's "Clean Code" or the Gang of Four's "Design Patterns". I really dislike both of those books, so I bought them something else from their birthday ...

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder (lanceewing.github.io)

L 52 pts 0 comments by jmillikin May 22, 2024 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The GlobalTalk Network (youtube.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by thombles May 21, 2024 historicalmacvideo Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

British Library on why it kept it real in communication about ransomware attack (theregister.com)

~ 9 pts 0 comments by unknown May 21, 2024 ~tech Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

How the internet revived the world's first work of interactive fiction (metafilter.com)

~ 13 pts 1 comments by unknown May 21, 2024 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Which books or authors have had the greatest impact on your worldview despite never having read them?

~ 8 pts 1 comments by unknown May 21, 2024 ~books Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread