History

Twos complement (2024-09-18)

How I built a tiny computer
The 14-Year-Old Who Gave Lisp a Home (2024-01-23)

From building Lisp on the PDP-1 at age 14 to shaping the future of programming

Emacs, Java, and the Finger-Twisting History Between Them (2023-09-18)

The unexpected historical overlap between Emacs, Java, and the people who shaped both.
The Teletype Model 33 – And the Curse of line breaks (2023-09-18)

The Teletype Model 33 is often blamed for why Windows and Linux have never quite agreed on how to break a line of text
The Tip-Ex key (2023-09-18)

A brief and geeky history of the Delete key, ASCII 127, and how mistakes used to be punched into paper.
Pioneering Women in Programming (2023-03-05)

From Ada Lovelace to Fran Allen — a tribute to the women who quietly (and not-so-quietly) built the foundation of modern computing.