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Nov 5

He Built Universal Binaries for Linux in 2009. In 2025 He Locked the Thread Asking Him to Try Again

He built what Mac developers mocked Linux for lacking, and years later said he would never go through that fight again

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Oct 23

Your CPU Runs Several Instructions at Once. IBM Fired the Woman Who Showed How in 1968.

She worked under a new name for three decades before a historian's website brought her design back to her

Lynn Conway in July 2006

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Linus Called It a Failure. Two Companies Living in It Sold for $1.1 Billion.

VMware and Cambridge's Xen both ran guest kernels in x86's ignored ring 1, and Amazon built EC2 on one of them.

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Britain Built an Electronic Computer Before ENIAC. Its Builder Was Ordered to Burn the Plans

Tommy Flowers shared his small bonus with his staff, kept the secret for thirty years, and watched ENIAC take the acclaim

Tommy Flowers

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In 1971 Unix’s Editor Answered Every Error With One Character. In 2025 Go Turned the Same One Down

Abort, Retry, Ignore. lp0 on fire. PC LOAD LETTER. Fifty years of baffled users, and the question Go still cannot settle

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A 15-Year-Old Wrote Code to Watch His DVDs on Linux. America Banned It and Norway Tried Him Twice

Hollywood's chief could not say one nickel was lost to it, and the free VLC player still does the same job

Jon Lech Johansen in Oslo in 2005

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Intel Paid $10 Million for a Licence. Forth’s Inventor’s Chip Patents Collected $312 Million

He gave his programming language away. A licensing firm took his processor designs to nearly 100 companies, and he sued his own lawyer

Chuck Moore

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Nov 3

Every Developer Types sudo. Its Maintainer Since 1994 Needed a Sponsor. AWS Paid for a Rewrite.

For two years the original took in about $63 a month while its Rust rewrite found backers

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Microsoft Wrote Off $7.5 Billion on Nokia Phones. The Linux Phone Nokia Gave Up Is Still Shipping

Nokia's CEO said MeeGo was finished even if the N9 was a hit, and the engineers who built it took it out the door

A blue Nokia N9

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GCHQ Invented the Web's Padlock. MIT Patented It. Its Inventor Died Before Britain Admitted It.

Aerial view of GCHQ in Cheltenham

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I write about the people behind the infrastructure you already depend on—every number checked against the primary source. WEBSITE: https://programmerscareer.com

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