Astronomy, space, retrocomputing, Lisp, Linux, coding.
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The recovery and revival of the original ELIZA, the very first chatbot. We take it for granted now but even just an interactive computer session was cutting edge technology back then.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2025/02/11030922/27sQDLuL7Uc
David Singleton wrote a toy BASIC compiler in Go which translates from a subset of TinyBASIC to Go source code.
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2021-01-31-i-wrote-a-compiler/
I missed by a month or so the 65th birthday of Algol 60 but it's still time to celebrate with this article on the 60th birthday.
In the 1980s I did know Compaq was a major computer manufacturer but didn't realize the extent to which it influenced the PC industry. This article tells the story of the company and its CEO Rod Canion.
Joshua Barretto on writing toy software and tools that reinvent some wheels as a joyful learning experience. He recommends a list of such projects he worked on but his estimates of time and difficulty may be overly optimistic.
APOD, the Astronomy Picture of the Day website, is 30 years old today. It was one of the first sites I visited and not only is it still online, it looks exactly as it did back then. APOD is a valuable science resource and a time capsule of the earliest web design.
A profile of VisiCalc co-creator @danb Dan Bricklin.
In 2010 Phil McKinney led the technical due diligence on Palm and convinced HP's board to acquire the mobile company. Here he tells for the first time the story of how HP fumbled the acquisition and doomed WebOS.
https://philmckinney.substack.com/p/i-convinced-hps-board-to-buy-palm
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