C, Python, Go, and the Generalized Greenspun Law

The long goodbye to C

The big break in computer languages

The case of the 500-mile email (2002)

Set the WABAC to 1984: Henry Spencer getopt, and the roots of open source

Semantic locality and the Way of Unix

In which, alas, I must rattle a tin cup

How to educate me about prejudice in the open-source community

Rust and the limits of swarm design

Rust severely disappoints me

Eric S. Raymond releases first update on Pilot after 20 years

The midrange computer dies

Announcing sshexport

Apollo 11 source code

ESR: Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs

From kafkatrap to honeytrap

Are tarballs obsolete?

NTPsec is not quite a full rewrite

How to submit a drive-by patch and get it accepted

The case of the 500-mile email (2002)

Lessons in Electric Circuits

Source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer

IRC logs from the beginning of the Gulf War (1991)

Feeling the nostalgia of the Apollo 11 mission? Take a peek at the source code for the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer, which was made public domain some years ago!