Apple Spun Out a Smartphone Company Before the iPhone

A 1994 touchscreen communicator sold only a few thousand units — its alumni later built the iPhone and Android

Go Rejected This Method for Five Years — Its Own Team Had Been Using It for Six

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You're right, and I should have done better. Bricklin gets the story because he had the idea and the prototype — Frankston gets one…

Minitel Reached 25 Million People — Then Its Own Meter Killed It

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The Moth Didn’t Invent the Word ‘Bug’

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The Internet Almost Became a Menu

In 1993, it grew 997% and was beating the Web. Eighteen months later it was gone — The cause of death is written into RFC 1436.

Go 1.27 SIMD Benchmarked — Lookup Drops From 76 ns to 14.5 ns, and the Portable Package Costs 2.3x

Two comparisons on one M5 — 5x between scalar code and SIMD, another 2.3x between archsimd and the portable SIMD package

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Dan Bricklin Invented the Spreadsheet — Then Spent Forty-Seven Years on the Same Idea

From VisiCalc to low-code, every product Dan Bricklin built handed the power to make things to people who cannot code

Twenty Years of Modern Large-Scale Computing Infrastructure, Seen Through Jeff Dean

From GFS to Pathways: what each layer took off engineers' hands and how that should shape your data stack

The Method That Funded Google Could Not Fund a Solar Panel

Twenty-five years of correct calls on software, then a decade in industries that burn capital like a refinery

encoding/json/v2 Waited Five and a Half Years to Become Go’s Default

From a Private Experiment to the Standard Library — the Full Timeline, Local Benchmarks, and Three Gotchas the Release Notes Skip