Hygienic Macro Technology (PDF, 2020), by William D Clinger and Mitchell Wand. “In this paper, we summarize that early history with greater focus on hygienic macros, and continue the story by describing the further development, adoption, and influence of hygienic and partially hygienic macro technology in Scheme.”

Lisp Machine Inc. K-machine: The Deffenbaugh, Marshall, Powell, Willison architecture, as remembered by Joe Marshall.

Boxes and Glue, a typesetting library written in Go. By Patrick Grundlach.

Place name mappings probably need a time dimension too, says Rachel. I often wished for historic Google Maps (i.e. “What was that store 5 years ago?”).

The hunt for the cluster-killer Erlang bug (2021), by Dániel Szoboszlay. Good writeup.

ue.c, a tiny editor by Terry Loveall.

The Synsedizer, a 5-note polyphonic synthesizer in sed(1).

Richard Bird (1943–2022), obituary by Jeremy Gibbons.

Remembering Ned Freed (1959–2022), by Nathaniel Borenstein. “MIME was the product of our collaboration, but it was the collaboration itself that I most treasure.”

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux, by Tavis Ormandy.

MarkovJunior is a probabilistic programming language where programs are combinations of rewrite rules and inference is performed via constraint propagation.

ipftrace2 is a tool which allows you to trace the journey of packets inside the Linux kernel.

microFLENG, a low level concurrent logic programming language descended from Prolog. Can target Z80 and Uxn. Written by Felix L. Winkelmann.

Frustration: Escaping a Turing Tar Pit with Forth, implemented in Rust. By Peter Fidelman.

The appeal of bidirectional type-checking, by Gabriella Gonzalez.

The First Lisp Compiler, a look at the Hart–Levin Compiler.

Zstandard Worked Example, in 7 parts. By Nigel Tao.

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