They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7(kevinboone.me)

90 points by AlexeyBrin 2 years ago | 58 comments

The planet Vulcan: a cautionary tale(kevinboone.me)

40 points by andsoitis 6 days ago | 15 comments

Essay by Kevin Boone recounting the 19th-century hypothetical planet Vulcan, its reported sightings, and its demise via Einstein's relativity, as a lesson for scientists.

Playing Zork 1 on a CP/M emulator on Linux (2021)(kevinboone.me)

33 points by linuxkernal 5 days ago | 14 comments

A tutorial on building the z80pack Z80 emulator and cpmtools on Linux to run CP/M 3 and play the Infocom text adventure Zork 1.

They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard(kevinboone.me)

303 points by ingve 1 year ago | 196 comments

They don't make 'em like that any more: Dyson Pure Cool-Me personal air purifier(kevinboone.me)

27 points by thomasjb 1 year ago | 36 comments

I don't care if web content is AI-generated(kevinboone.me)

4 points by andsoitis 6 days ago | 0 comments

Personal essay by Kevin Boone arguing that AI-generated web content should be judged like any untrusted content, since human content is often equally unreliable.

Tim Peters has died(discuss.python.org)

1371 points by ayhanfuat 2 days ago | 172 comments

Discourse thread on discuss.python.org where Guido van Rossum announces the death of Tim Peters and recounts his contributions to Python, with community tributes.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

VVVVVV Source Code(github.com)

385 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 72 comments

GitHub repository by Terry Cavanagh hosting the source code of the indie platformer game VVVVVV, with desktop and mobile versions.

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 11 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.