Conway's Law and Coding Assistants(mishajw.com)

7 points by mishajw 2 years ago | 4 comments

XEmacs 21.5.35 “kohlrabi” is released(xemacs.org)

66 points by dmm 3 years ago | 16 comments

Two types of C programmers(utcc.utoronto.ca)

77 points by susam 3 years ago | 124 comments

Why I love OCaml (2023)(mccd.space)

379 points by art-w 11 months ago | 270 comments

Personal blog post by Marc Coquand explaining why he loves OCaml, comparing it with Haskell and other languages he has used.

The Multics Maclisp Compiler: The Basic Hackery – A Tutorial (1977)(multicians.org)

35 points by susam 2 years ago | 2 comments

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later(muppetlabs.com)

50 points by Bluestein 1 month ago | 12 comments

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.

Purely Functional Data Structures (1996) [pdf](cs.cmu.edu)

327 points by debanjan16 3 years ago | 94 comments

Chris Okasaki's 1996 CMU PhD thesis on designing and analyzing purely functional data structures, hosted as a PDF.

Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999)(philzimmermann.com)

174 points by GaryBluto 12 days ago | 65 comments

Phil Zimmermann's essay from the original 1991 PGP User's Guide, updated in 1999, explaining why he created PGP to protect the privacy of personal communications.

Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf](ipaidia.gr)

344 points by lioeters 10 months ago | 120 comments

A PDF biography of programmer Fabrice Bellard by Andy Gocke and Nick Pizzolato, covering his background and influential software contributions.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(cs.unc.edu)

942 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 437 comments

A university course page listing Rob Pike's five rules of programming on measurement, simple algorithms, and data structures, with notes relating them to Hoare, Thompson, and Brooks.