Software is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996. Here’s what we had then, in chronological order: LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, SQL, O…

Taking on the x86 duopoly

A design system for building faithful recreations of the Windows 7 UI.

'The year 1925 was a golden moment in literary history,' writes the BBC's Jane Ciabattari. 'Ernest Hemingway’s first book, In Our Time, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby were all published that year.

:syringe: Stuff which works in Chrome and maybe Acrobat and Foxit. - osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments

Reflecting on one year of growth, going from live collaboration to end-to-end encryption, and the role of community contributions.

Software made by Indie developers is getting harder and harder. Microsoft now renders downloads suspicious by default. Binaries are properly signed, even my address is in plain sight. But not commonly downloaded... I wonder why??

Memories from Oxford days Mathematical Institute src Peter Neumann, Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Oxford University, passed away two weeks ago. Last Monday would have been his …

If you're looking for some systems research to read on the first day of 2021, here are some of my favorite reads from 2020. 1/

In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it.
But how can you read a lot of it if you don’t know what it means?
In this article, instead of focusing on one or...

Cscope is a developer's tool for browsing C programming code

This is the fourth…and LAST…entry in my series of blog posts analyzing the accuracy of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions about what things would be like in 2019. These predictions come from hi…

The manner in which a state kills people has major implications for that state's structure

Data and Visualizations on all your 2020 iMessages

Throughout my career, though I’ve managed to be productive in aggregate, I’ve always sought to be more consistent in my productivity. How productive I am at a given moment seems driven …