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Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance

How we organized the Rust Clippy feature freeze

NewPipe is turning 10 :O

Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal

Oral History of Ken Thompson [video]

Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming (1978)

Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (2010)

The QNX Operating System

Stone Tools: Exploring retro productivity software from the 8/16-bit era

AT&T Long Lines – A Forgotten System (2018)

The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]

Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004)

Game Development: History, Industry, and Engine Design

Updating historical deprecations with "since" version

The Bearded Vulture as an accumulator of historical remains: Insights for future ecological and biocultural studies

My Programming Career Is a Historical Artifact

Rating 26 years of Java changes

I once appeared in The Old New Thing

Shellshock (2014, 2025)

Steve Jobs, Jef Raskin, and the first great war for your thumbs (2023)

A brief history of threads and threading

A Early History of Algebraic Data Types

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

Why was WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline?

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"

Choose Your Own Adventure

Some observations concerning large programming efforts (1964)

Three decades in kernelland

Debian Upgrade Marathon: 3.1 Sarge

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