Dmitry Grinberg got Linux to boot on a 4004; time-lapse video included. “I booted Debian Linux on a 4-bit intel microprocessor from 1971 - the first microprocessor in the world - the 4004. It is not fast, but it is a real Linux kernel with a Debian rootfs on a real board whose only CPU is a real intel 4004 from the 1970s. The video is sped up at variable rates to demonstrate this without boring you.”
#PDF of Liskov’s 01974 #paper introducing ADTs and the yet-unnamed #CLU. #history
research mapping economic mobility by zipcode across the US with IRS data. #toread
"redpanda" is “The Fast, Scalable, Kafka-Compatible Streaming Data Platform: Simplify real-time data with hundreds of connectors, built-in processing, and cost-efficient storage—designed for enterprise AI and data-intensive apps” recommended by #Jamie-Brandon as an example of things that have gotten real speedups
"Sorbet" is “Fast typechecking for Ruby” at Stripe recommended by #Jamie-Brandon as an example of things that have gotten real speedups
#Eliezer on the kinds of cognitive errors that lead to people arguing about whether trees falling in the forest make a sound #toread
Chris #Wellons explores how to do interactive programming in #C, following Casey #Muratori’s “Handmade Hero”, by reloading a shared library. #toread
how to use checklists to minimize downtime
"Toad" is Will McGugan’s “universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal” #neural-networks #AI
#Hypothesis #documentation for strategies #PBT
#retrocomputing multimenu in BASIC for an MSX
#Muratori’s notes on his keynote talk
Python quickstart for the #Google-Sheets API using their nasty ugly API library
discussion of #Muratori’s keynote
#Jitsi has a #config.prejoinConfig.enabled=false URL fragment option which joins you to a meeting without any interaction, which can be used to spy on you if you’ve allowed Jitsi to have audio access previously. #privacy #security
“Police in #Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices. Law enforcement officials in Catalonia say they associate Pixels with crime because drug traffickers are increasingly turning to these phones. But it’s not Google’s secure Titan M2 chip that has criminals favoring the Pixel — instead, it’s #GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused alternative to the default Pixel OS.” #privacy #human-rights #security
Jacques Mattheij (#jacquesm) did a #CNC #manufacturing startup in the 80s which used stepper motors instead of servos, which turned it into “the startup from hell”. “These people knew their stuff and when they found out that our machine was using steppers, not servos they were immediately skeptical. Rightly so. Step-loss, the situation where you have told a stepper to make a move but it hasn’t had been observed before but not on the scale that we’re talking about here. (...) At Fred’s house things were not all that rosy either, his wife tried to torch their boat, and nearly succeeded. Round about this time my wife left me, and she was completely right about doing so. I’d been working day and night for almost as long as we’d been together by then thinking that I might get us out of the financial hole we were in if only I worked just a bit harder. (...) They ended up ditching the ST (good for them) dropped the steppers in favor of servos and rebuilt the whole thing on the PC, the software that I wrote was translated line-by-line to give them their first version which formed the basis of the stuff they still sell to this day.
Years later Fred showed up at my offices in IJmuiden to ask if I felt like doing it all again, from a copy of the software that he’d kept after selling the company.
I declined the offer, he also confessed that he’d torched that factory so I threw him out.”
autoreload for #Love2D. LÖVE.
#video #interview with #DHH on the launch of their Hey email app where they went head-to-head with #Apple over their 30% revenue cut. Says everyone owes an immense debt of gratitude to #Epic Megagames for fighting Apple on this.
Michie’s matchbox learning #AI applied to Hexapawn in David #Ahl’s #BASIC games book.
#video of Jon #Blow talking to the camera about what computer science #pedagogy should and shouldn’t teach.
#video #toread of Matt Godbolt on what programmers should know about how CPUs work
#PDF of the #documentation for the Zenrom addon to the #HP #41C pocket calculator or handheld computer from 01979, documenting its CPU instruction set, etc. #retrocomputing #history #architecture
How do I get Herculiner off my hootus? #humor
#paper #PDF of “synthetic fiber capstan drives for highly efficient torque controlled robotic applications” from Mazumdar et al. at Sandia, arguing that it’s better than steel cables because plastic ropes can handle tighter bend radii, 8:1 rather than 18:1 in the 3mm range. #mechanisms
how distillation of #neural-networks works for #AI
using Playwright to puppet a #Chrome browser in debug mode for, for exmaple, running tests
#PDF of David #Ahl’s #BASIC #games, “the first computer book to sell more than a million copies.[1]”, hosted on the Internet Archive, which is not Annarchive