Kenneth Streetman·Oct 27The PortI was a 19-year-old student at Florida Tech in 1989 when I helped port S, the predecessor to R, onto a VAX running VMS. Here’s a dramatized…A response icon1A response icon1
Len Rosen·Aug 15The Evolution of Coding from Manual Writing to AI Generation — 21st Century Tech BlogPaige Linton is a freelance writer. She is interested in culture, creativity and practical ways to stay organized. She likes to create…
Luigi Poderico·Aug 3From Steersmen to Bits: How Cybernetics and Information Theory Forged the Digital EconomyIn the years after World War II, two visionary frameworks — Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics and Claude Shannon’s information theory —…
Ersabalesiddharth·Jul 18The Evolution of Computing, Day 2: How Billions of Switches Become a CPUThis is Day 2 of a 7-day series tracing the evolution of programming from first principles. Day 1 covered why computers use binary and how…
Ersabalesiddharth·Jul 17The Evolution of Programming and AI — Day 1 of 7The Evolution of Computing, Day 1: Why Computers Only Understand 0 and 1
Alex Yansen·Jun 3013 From Zero to AI: The First AI Boom (Episode 3) 1961–1964: How Symbolic AI Opened the Gates to…Welcome back to From Zero to AI, a journey through the complete history of artificial intelligence — from its earliest philosophical roots…
Arvind Jolly·Jun 26What a 1,000-Year-Old Indian Divination System Can Teach Software Engineers About State MachinesModern software engineering prides itself on deterministic systems.
Dr David Bell·Apr 26The ArgumentWelcome. This is the opening of a book I am serialising here over the next year. New chapters every other Tuesday, side essays on the…
InLevel Up CodingbyCfir Aguston·Mar 9The Moment Computing Became RealThe story of the machine that turned electronic computation into reality.A response icon1A response icon1
InLevel Up CodingbyEnis Olgac·Feb 24Anthropic’s Claude Code can modernize COBOL codebases automatically — surely this is just the…On February 23, 2026, Anthropic announced that Claude Code can modernize COBOL codebases automatically. For most people, that was news. For…
