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A History of Programming Languages

A History of Programming Languages

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Happy 107th Birthday, Betty Holberton! 🎉

Happy 107th Birthday, Betty Holberton! 🎉

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From JavaScript to React: The Evolution of Web Interactivity

From JavaScript to React: The Evolution of Web Interactivity

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A Journey Through Time: The Evolution of Web Development

A Journey Through Time: The Evolution of Web Development

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Netscape — Pioneer of the Free Internet 🌐

Netscape — Pioneer of the Free Internet 🌐

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Beyond the Mug: Exploring the First Decade of AWS Transformation

Beyond the Mug: Exploring the First Decade of AWS Transformation

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A History of Computing: What led up to AI?

A History of Computing: What led up to AI?

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How does history.js work?

How does history.js work?

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On Venerable Technology--Perl, Part 1

On Venerable Technology--Perl, Part 1

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The Technical Impact of the 11 Missing Days in 1972 and Its Relevance in the Linux Ecosystem

The Technical Impact of the 11 Missing Days in 1972 and Its Relevance in the Linux Ecosystem

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The Ascent of Node.js: How a runtime changed the Web

The Ascent of Node.js: How a runtime changed the Web

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The JavaScript Odyssey

The JavaScript Odyssey

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Understanding Embedded Systems

Understanding Embedded Systems

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The Evolution of Computing: From Vacuum Tubes to Microprocessors

The Evolution of Computing: From Vacuum Tubes to Microprocessors

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How I got started with Pidgin

How I got started with Pidgin

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What ChatGPT Needs is Context

What ChatGPT Needs is Context

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Where did the name libpurple come from?

Where did the name libpurple come from?

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Problems with webfonts (an article from 1998)

Problems with webfonts (an article from 1998)

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The Docker project turns 10! Looking back at a decade of containers

The Docker project turns 10! Looking back at a decade of containers

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What Happened to UUIDv2?

What Happened to UUIDv2?

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Being a developer in 1998 was so cool and fun

Being a developer in 1998 was so cool and fun

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A Brief History of User Interfaces

A Brief History of User Interfaces

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Why are Software bugs named bugs?

Why are Software bugs named bugs?

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Recap of the state management history in React

Recap of the state management history in React

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Internet history

Internet history

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History of APIs

History of APIs

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Hello, World!

Hello, World!

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History of HTML - Hypertext markup language

History of HTML - Hypertext markup language

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Angular: A shift in paradigm

Angular: A shift in paradigm

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SSGs through the ages: The 'Islands' era

SSGs through the ages: The 'Islands' era

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Histórico de Operaçþes

Histórico de Operaçþes

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Why do we use Hello World? - the history behind it

Why do we use Hello World? - the history behind it

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The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger

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Turing, the Halting Problem and the Dawn of the Digital Age

Turing, the Halting Problem and the Dawn of the Digital Age

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Back to BASIC

Back to BASIC

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Why Windows uses \r\n newlines instead of \n

Why Windows uses \r\n newlines instead of \n

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Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans Osinga

Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans Osinga

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The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch

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Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire

Server-side JavaScript a decade before Node.js with Netscape LiveWire

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Patterns of Conflict: Understand blitzkrieg with 4 German words

Patterns of Conflict: Understand blitzkrieg with 4 German words

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7 interesting deprecated JavaScript features

7 interesting deprecated JavaScript features

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Why DDT?

Why DDT?

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The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason

The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason

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Who Owns The Web?

Who Owns The Web?

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Why do database columns have a character length of 191?

Why do database columns have a character length of 191?

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The Land Before Internet: How everyday computer terms got their names

The Land Before Internet: How everyday computer terms got their names

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A History of Debugging on the Web

A History of Debugging on the Web

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The iOS journey

The iOS journey

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What would you like to understand about the history of the cloud? Answer for the chance to be featured on our podcast!

What would you like to understand about the history of the cloud? Answer for the chance to be featured on our podcast!

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Fixing a 40-year-old Software Bug

Fixing a 40-year-old Software Bug

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The Frontend journey

The Frontend journey

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Five Classic Reads in Software Development

Five Classic Reads in Software Development

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Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir

Game of Phones: History of Erlang and Elixir

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How does troll (tech) become cute?

How does troll (tech) become cute?

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Changing the rails

Changing the rails

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The history of Model-View-Presenter

The history of Model-View-Presenter

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The history of wildfire modeling

The history of wildfire modeling

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So how did we begin?

So how did we begin?

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Deutsche Geschichte

Deutsche Geschichte

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Who brought us here?

Who brought us here?

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