Miscellaneous collection of blogposts from people who had to debug some really strange computers.

A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard

Very well written post explaining the reality of gaming in the Global South and how the US-based media knowingly and unknowingly participates in its erasure.

A quick look into the process of creating a font.

Explore an archive of Doom ports showcasing how the game has been adapted to run on various devices, even those not originally intended for gaming.

Or would you?

Insightful post from Hillel Wayne exploring how to apply the Hierarchy of Hazard Controls they learned about from a mechanical engineer to a contrived example in programming.

Short and to the point post about designing things with a little trust in your users to intuit a relatively easy model rather than papering over the slightest complexity with things that erase the mental model of the underlying concepts.

Today I learned that Firefox started as an act of protest from Mozilla engineers who hated the bloated product they were being forced to create

Super interesting deep dive into why the Android calculator app is so much better than iOS', and the incredible amount of work Hans Boehm put into making it so. I have never been more interested in calculators than reading this post!

Timezones are insane

A great summary of a paper that analyzed how medical professionals teach themselves to work around security hygiene that prevents them from doing their job. It's a great look into how people working on securing systems often overlook the day to day reality of how these systems are operated.

A somewhat dated but still quite useful list of things to look out for when diving into building distributed systems

Super interesting stuff, it's wild how capable OpenType is.

Great read on understanding the incentives behind software development.

Great read on why the distinction between technical and non-technical folks is simply meant to be exclusionary, and whether the word holds any weight at all.

Businesses prioritizing shareholder value over everything else seems to have become the norm, but I didn't know how this insane sounding behavior started and this is a great history lesson on it.

Being able to make slides with Compose sounds fun!