That’s two days from now, on 11/5: James Lowden will be talking about COBOL and the gcobol in GCC, which is in part his fault. This should be good. RSVP and go, if you are near. Stream if you are not.
Hey, I made my averaging-once-yearly commit!
- The Questing Beast Appendix N. I like the idea of “personal” Appendix Ns.
- Phrack is still publishing. (via)
- PagedOut, tech articles with a one-page max. (also via)
- Winners of the 2025 IFComp. (via)
- One of Pascal’s original calculating machines from 1642 is up for sale. (via)
- AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System. Seeing the inside of Brian Kernighan’s office is sorta neat. (video, via)
- Drawing an ASCII TIE fighter for post?quantum cryptography.
- Robot Phone Home…Or Else.
- Cursed Knowledge. (via)