Good god. I guess people figured what the E-6B Mercury does and are freaking out This flight over California was routine practice and they are up ALL the time regardless of any current geo-politics Now if they are off tracker AND throwing off SKY KING messages.... #AvGeek #E6B
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/doomsday-plane-california-22062997.php
♥️And that's why Alysa Liu is Oakland royalty. In 2026 in the face of rising racism, fascism, and misogyny, a woman that speaks comfortably about Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, and Abolish ICE.
Gold medal is cool and all, but do you have your own thizz face mural of you flexing that gold medal?
(Corrected to "thizz face" from "stank face," so that my friends and neighbors don't tackle me, pin me down, take my phone, and delete all the Mac Dre and E-40 from my playlists).
Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
capitalists: "without a profit motive, nobody would do anything. society would collapse."
my friends & acquaintances: "I implemented a SPARC emulator in pure CSS"
Those three US Air Force F-15Es that got shot down were reportedly all shot down by a single Kuwaiti F/A-18, which if true means there is a pilot somewhere in Kuwait who simultaneously wrecked his career and got 60% of the way towards becoming a fighter ace
Received a scan of an internal Bell Labs memo from 1982 today that showed an alternative Shell for Unix 4.0(!) called CL by Martin Sturzenbecker. It had typed variables and was referenced by David Korn in the 1986 ksh memo. Much thanks to the Bell Labs/Nokia archivists for finding it!
Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).
And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.
If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!
The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,