Celebrating 50 years of the UNIX Operating system, providing publicly accessible old Unix systems.

Automatic Syntax Error Recovery, by Laurence Tratt.

I Solved British Square, by Chris Wellons.

quiver: a new commutative diagram editor for the web, by varkor.

k0s is a single binary all-inclusive Kubernetes distribution with all the required bells and whistles preconfigured to make building a Kubernetes clusters a matter of just copying an executable to every host and running it.

MyNOR is a single board computer that does not have a CPU.

MUNIAC is a 12-bit parallel computer in vacuum-tube technology, design started in 1998(!). By John Zabolitzky.

QB64 is a modern extended BASIC programming language that retains QBasic/QuickBASIC 4.5 compatibility and compiles native binaries for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Improving on QBasic’s Random Number Generator, by Chris Wellons.

The end of anon: literary sleuthing from Shakespeare to Unabomber (2001), review by John Lanchester.

Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics, collected by Jeff Miller.

1. Who’s in the Crossword?, by Michelle McGhee, with Russell Goldenberg and Jan Diehm. Interesting analysis.

Chess Errors in Film and TV, by Bill Wall.

I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track, by David Lu.

PLATYPUS, a novel software-based power side-channel attacks on Intel server, desktop and laptop CPUs exploiting unprivileged access to the Intel RAPL.

Reverse-engineering the carry-lookahead circuit in the Intel 8008 processor, by Ken Shirriff.

Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip, by Ken Shirriff.

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

Formulog: ML + Datalog + SMT, by Michael Greenberg.

Unicode-patched trn 4.0 test77, and there was much rejoicing.

Leap second hiatus, Tony Finch looks at the earth rotation.

A Visual History of Internet (IPv4) Address Allocations

The Art of Chording, teach yourself stenography for free.

Lasca is a very intriguing and exciting board game invented in 1911 by the great chess master Emanuel Lasker.

The Heart of RISC-V Development is Unmatched, new SiFive RISC-V development boards can be pre-ordered.

Multipliers on RISC-V (2018), by Tom Verbeure.

It’s Time for a New Old Language (YouTube, 2017), talk by Guy Steele. Recommended!

How are Unix pipes implemented?, comprehensive post by Abhijit Menon-Sen.

Grafana Tempo is an open source, easy-to-use and high-scale distributed tracing backend.

Overseer is a simple and scalable Go-based remote protocol tester, which allows you to monitor the state of your network, and the services running upon it.

My Obsession with Chess (1998–1999), by Scott McCloud.

U2’s Songs of Innocence Has Haunted Me for 6 Years. Until Now. By Russ Frushtick.