Caesar's Last Breath(charliesabino.com)
170 points by charliesabino | 71 comments
170 points by charliesabino | 71 comments
441 points by laurentlb | 286 comments
Blog post by Laurent Le Brun recounting the history of IDEs and code editors used internally at Google for its main codebase.
225 points by streamer45 | 45 comments
172 points by mkeeter | 60 comments
4 points by darkwater | 0 comments
Blog post explaining why Etruscan remains poorly understood despite being pronounceable, since most of the ~13,000 surviving inscriptions are funerary.
3 points by measurablefunc | 2 comments
A Works in Progress essay examining the causes of the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mediterranean civilizations.
402 points by cacher | 220 comments
A Classical Wisdom Substack newsletter post listing 12 Ancient Greek terms, such as eudaimonia and arete, that the author argues deserve modern revival.
4 points by dimonomid | 0 comments
A personal blog essay using Cato the Younger's speech on the Catiline conspiracy, as recorded by Sallust, to reflect on how the software field names things.
6 points by inandout | 0 comments
A Portuguese-language blog post discussing why global economic inequality between rich and poor keeps widening, citing technology, cost of living, and billionaire wealth.
828 points by d0ks | 386 comments
A Substack essay by David Oks explaining the internal logic behind why Japanese corporations diversify into so many unrelated businesses.