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@jackdaniel Why do they do that with an obscure language? Resume padding? Supply chain attack?

Common Lisp is a niche language with a small community. I wonder what's happening with mainstream languages.

@davetenny

@SteveBellovin Another giant left us.

@aka_pugs

@mkoek I'm sad to recognize the name under this circumstance, too.

RIP Tony Hoare.

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html

#retrocomputing

@sos The Aztec and Lattice C compilers were popular among developers back then.

@lproven A few years ago I posted some thoughts on why RSS also makes sense for bloggers and publishers, especially these days:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/why-your-blog-still-needs-rss

@theregister

@davefischer They don't know those early devices didn't come with a mouse.

@lproven Not a couple of thousands but I've always subscribed to over 300 feeds. To maintain a good mix I have few feeds updated frequently and many feeds updated infrequently.

@arclight Interestingly, the most solid sources on a topic are usually old, even in rapidly changing fields like science and engineering.

A history of Lisp on the Mac and Macintosh Common Lisp.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2013/2/17_Macintosh_Common_Lisp.html

#lisp #CommonLisp #mac #retrocomputing

@stonetoolsblog Have you seen this?

https://unsung.aresluna.org/kapor-had-projected-first-year-sales-of-1m-but-did-53m-instead

@lproven A few years ago I called Vodafone Italy's support for enquiring about something. Before I could fully explain what I needed, the operator noticed I'm a longtime customer and cut by a bit my fiber monthly fee.

Some time later I called again for an unrelated issue and, again, a different operator noticed I'm a longtime customer and cut the fiber fee a bit more.

The history of Apple OpenDoc and similar object embedding facilities such as Microsoft OLE. An old but interesting post.

http://basalgangster.macgui.com/RetroMacComputing/The_Long_View/Entries/2010/4/17_OpenDoc.html

#OpenDoc #mac #retrocomputing

Caroline Crampton on what it is like to manage and read almost 2,000 RSS feeds.

Somehow, still using RSS, which is a beautifully simple bit of tech from the early days of the web, makes you part of a community of like-minded strangers.

https://www.carolinecrampton.com/the-view-from-rss

#rss #blogs

@Numerfolt Me too. At some point I barely noticed that key existed.

@Daojoan Enjoy these space timelapses and views of the Earth a friend of mine makes from photos taken from the International Space Station:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRVpVqA1yzHNL2yXCfnxE7H_EhVDA3CLF

@govinda_hari I had long forgotten too.

The origins of the Scroll Lock key of PC keyboards.

https://unsung.aresluna.org/lock-scroll-with-a-vengeance

#keyboard #retrocomputing

@jackdaniel You should make a bumper sticker "Moore's law is my garbage collector".

@weekend_editor That's understandable, but why list invisible text in the results in the first place?