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In 1976, Los Alamos hosted the International History of Computing Conference where the pioneering efforts of computing were discussed, often by the pioneers themselves.

The first song composed and played by a computer was The Silver Scale on May 17, 1957.

PDF Version INTRODUCTION In a programming language, a string is a sequence of characters that often represents some message to the user or contains input such as a name or the contents of a file.

Programming languages use format specifiers to control the formatting of numbers and text.

In my earlier post on interviewing, I discussed aspects of a coding interview question that I thought provided better signal on the candidate than algorithmic-focused questions.

Infinite Race is a mathematical racing game.

I’ve made an update to the Game of Ur - Background post.

This is a tale of finding fractals in an unexpected place and why the appearance makes sense in hindsight.

How to Solve It, but for operational incidents.

Game Wizards: The Epic Battle for Dungeons & Dragons by Jon Peterson Publisher’s Website Game Wizards is a business history spanning the creation of Dungeons & Dragons and TSR to the firing of Gary Gygax in 1985.

Warning: Contains spoilers for the season 6, episode 5 “Tethics” of the show Silicon Valley which aired in 2019.

Lobste.rs is a “computing focused community” and this post is a good example of why I like it: Thinking about the data model of file systems and alternatives is a pretty geeky subject, but impactful Comments are respectful and build on the post Comments a…

I’ve updated the RSS feed to include the full content of the articles rather than just the summary.

Updated 2021-12-17: A closed-form solution has been submitted The Royal Game of Ur, also known as the Game of Twenty Squares, is one of the oldest known board games, with attestations from 3000 to 250 BC.

This is the 60th anniversary of the proof of Little’s Law, a widely useful rule for queuing systems that links throughput, response (cycle) time, and number of requests (work items).

Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and their Chalkboards by Jessica Wynne is a beautiful photography book.

Hacker News likes to complain about interviewing, and, well, there is a lot to complain about.

Modern software systems involve many asynchronous tasks, but reporting status on tasks is often handled poorly.

Between Honeywell and Qualtrics, I founded a company called ℤ→ℤ Technologies.