Notes concerning “History”
Why John Backus Was on the Wrong Track
2007 (updated 2007 to 2009) (7483 words)
Learning low level stuff is not just fun, but also useful
2007 to 2009 (755 words)
Notes on Raph Levien's "Io" Programming Language
2007 to 2009 (1635 words)
bytecode interpreters for tiny computers
2007-09 (9630 words)
mechanical computation: with Merkle gates, height fields, and thread
2010-06-28 (3777 words)
2025 manufacturing and economics scenario
2014-04-24 (3785 words)
Plato was not particularly democratic; ἄρχειν is not “participating in politics”
2014-04-24 (736 words)
50 ideas to ship in 2014
2014-04-24 (5330 words)
Entry-C: a Simula-like backwards-compatible object-oriented C
2015-04-05 (updated 2017-04-03) (4017 words)
Editor buffers
2015-07-15 (updated 2015-09-03) (2407 words)
Executable scholarship, or algorithmic scholarly communication
2016-08-11 (2029 words)
State of the world 2016
2016-09-05 (1488 words)
Further notes on algebras for dark silicon
2016-09-17 (updated 2017-04-18) (3468 words)
Solar-powered portable computers
2016-09-17 (updated 2018-10-28) (2254 words)
Academic lineage
2016-10-30 (1606 words)
Non-inverting logic
2017-02-18 (1303 words)
Thredsnek
2017-03-20 (1084 words)
The history of NoSQL and dbm
2017-04-10 (2395 words)
Quasicard: a hypothetical reimagining of HyperCard and TiddlyWiki
2017-04-18 (updated 2017-06-09) (2764 words)
Hipster stack 2017
2017-04-28 (updated 2017-05-04) (4192 words)
Nova RDOS
2017-06-15 (3618 words)
Some notes on reverse-engineering The Wizard’s Castle
2018-04-26 (1319 words)
2017 [Provisional English translation of intercepted transmission]
2018-04-27 (updated 2018-07-14) (2049 words)
Quasimode keyboard
2018-07-14 (3645 words)
Gradient pixels
2018-08-16 (updated 2018-10-28) (1454 words)
Scriptable windowing for Wercam
2018-10-26 (updated 2018-12-13) (4056 words)
Text editor design for e-ink displays
2018-10-28 (3516 words)
A simple virtual machine for vector math?
2018-11-06 (updated 2018-11-09) (2325 words)
Bootstrapping instruction set
2018-11-06 (updated 2019-05-03) (2991 words)
Commentaries on reading Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect”
2018-12-24 (updated 2018-12-25) (3798 words)
Dehydrating processes and other interaction models
2018-12-28 (updated 2019-01-01) (5436 words)
Transactional event handlers
2019-01-24 (2086 words)
Elastic metamaterials
2019-03-19 (2599 words)
Fractal palettes
2019-04-02 (1061 words)
Gardening machines
2019-04-02 (updated 2019-04-24) (4818 words)
Three-stack generic macro assembler (design sketch)
2019-04-30 (1214 words)