Software History

My personal Substack. Click to read Jen’s Substack, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flan

As a freelance journalist – or an office worker if you wish – I have always believed that I should regularly buy a new laptop. But older machines offer more quality for much less money.

If we want the internet to keep working in circumstances where access to energy is more limited, we can learn important lessons from alternative network technologies.

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For a bird born in captivity, flight is a mental illness.

A chat show between Chris and Alex two long-time "self-hosters" who share their lessons and take you on the journey of their new ones.

My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

If you didn't gather off the bat from the title, the problem with developing front end projects isn't that it's harder or more complicated, it's that *you* mad…

My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]

Putting your IT infrastructure into the cloud seems to be the "in" thing. It's been around for a while, of course. And, like most things rel...

The computer built to last 50 years écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

Despair and Hope: From the Stupidity of Academic Bureaucracy to the Poetry of Bitcoin écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.

Resources Planet | All In One Useful Websites On The Internet 🤷‍♂️ Here is a list of massive websites that you may find useful in every way of internet use! Content of table: Alternative search engines Miscellaneous Interesting sites Useful sites Science / math sites Tech sites Privacy / Security related sites Learning sites Image (editors, generators etc.) sites Aesthetic / cool sites Book sites Humour / fun / Random sites Audio / music / sound sites Coomer stuff Image boa...

Apple's issues

Turns out, a lot of it, actually.

why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time

When it comes to static sites, there are a myriad of solutions for authoring and compiling, but talk about hosting these static sites, and we are still in the early 2000s. I discuss the challenges one faces when hosting, and even make a proposal to solve some of these.

A server that redirects you to a random page.

Roy Tang's blog. Programmer, engineer, scientist, critic, gamer, dreamer, and kid-at-heart. Randomly amazed.

Vane Vander's personal website

I’m on a mission to help you share what you love, get discovered by people who love the same things too and make the web a better place at the same time.