Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)

1065 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 182 comments

Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a statistics department that could not send email farther than about 500 miles, traced to a sendmail misconfiguration and timeouts.

We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)

618 points by giancarlostoro 9 months ago | 104 comments

Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a university department that couldn't send email farther than about 500 miles, and the debugging that explained why.

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph(dougmacdowell.com)

643 points by dougdude3339 5 months ago | 98 comments

Doug MacDowell's project essay about spending 50 hours designing and drawing a single line graph data visualization.

Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell(glocq.github.io)

64 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 21 comments

Does anyone remember websites?(tttthis.com)

31 points by lr0 1 year ago | 37 comments

Cube: Packing a 5x5x5 cube with Y-pentominoes(kociemba.org)

7 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 3 comments

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

Twenty Years of Pandoc(pandoc.org)

365 points by fiddlosopher 2 months ago | 46 comments

A retrospective by pandoc's creator marking twenty years since the first release of the Haskell document converter in 2006.

Making Software(makingsoftware.com)

631 points by calme_toi 1 year ago | 95 comments

Making Software is an illustrated reference manual by Dan Hollick explaining how software and computing concepts work, aimed at people who design and build software.

Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)

346 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 269 comments

Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.

YouTube is a mysterious monopoly(anderegg.ca)

338 points by geerlingguy 1 year ago | 432 comments

Blog post discussing a recent drop in YouTube views reported by creators like Adrian Black and Jeff Geerling, and YouTube's opaque monopoly position.

Radio Days(oldster.substack.com)

5 points by NaOH 3 days ago | 2 comments

A personal essay in Oldster Magazine where Michael A. Gonzales recalls childhood mornings in Harlem listening to WNEW and WABC radio and how it shaped his musical taste.