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Josh Ghent (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshghent.com
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The parts that make an architecture diagram actually useful: a key, an author, a version history, and clear flows.
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A checklist for buying a used car, from MOT history and common faults to what to check before you hand over the money.
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Why developers pile on PHP, from inconsistent method naming to its history, and what the criticism gets right.
Josh Müller (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshmuller.ca
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A few years ago, when I wrote a post about the history of Smallpox , I… got a little obsessed. I went DEEP down the rabbit-hole, learning everything I could about how smallpox affected people, families, and civilization. In the event that you and I had any long conversation during that time, I almost definitely spent some of that time talking your ear off about it. (sorry, not sorry) I thou
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It’s interesting to frame both history and life through the contrasting lenses of solutions and implementation . Farming was a solution to the challenges and dangers built into the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The story of civilization has largely been a story of the implementation of that solution of farming. Electricity was a solution to a wide range of problems. Most notably early on, it wa
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When I was a kid, I hated history class. To me, it was nothing more than a list of names, dates, and facts about wars and dead people that I was required to memorize. I never saw how it actually applied to my life. But in last few years, I’ve started to LOVE history — largely because I’ve come across amazing stories and nuggets of history that I think are really worth talking abo
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Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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- heuristic “history” via Published content Source page (opens on the publisher’s site)
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Judge Sara Hill called Flock-style ALPR history indiscriminate mass surveillance and suppressed a warrantless month of travel data.
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Senko Rašić challenges the claim that code was never the hard part—hiring, craft, and buggy software say otherwise—arguing understanding why to build and how to build well both stay hard while AI shifts where scarce effort goes.
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George Michaelson’s history of the Berkeley sockets interface—how 4.2BSD in 1983 treated a network connection like a file, made networked programs straightforward to write, and quietly became the standard path for TCP/IP software, including modern protocols that still send data through sockets.
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noclip.website by Jasper St. Pierre and contributors is a browser museum of video game levels you can freely explore—Nintendo-heavy but spanning Portal, Halo, and more—arguing it is serious game preservation and reverse engineering, not just nostalgia or screenshots.
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Simon Willison inspected xAI's newly open-sourced Grok Build after reports it uploaded users' repositories to company-controlled cloud storage. Releasing a cleaned-up single-commit snapshot is better than closed source, but it is not the same as releasing the project's history.
