Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis
It’s fascinating to see how many of these have no connection to programming today, but also how many do.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
ECMA-17: Graphical representation of control characters (1968)
The document that introduced the graphical representations of control characters.
The Rise, Fall, and Surprising Survival of dBase
A history of dBase.
Running Open Genera 2.0 on Linux
A guide (that, as per the into, is now kind of old) to getting Open Genera running on GNU/Linux.
Visual git History
Neat site that provides an animated view of the history of a file in git (well, mostly on GitHub and similar forges). Could be handy if ever needing to demonstrate how some code evolved.