How Tim Berners-Lee Built the First Web Server at CERN in 1990
TL;DR In late December 1990 Tim Berners-Lee created the first usable web server on a NeXT workstation at CERN, alongside…
Why package managers repeatedly fail when they treat Git as a database
TL;DR Many package managers initially used Git repositories to store package metadata and versions because it seemed convenient, but scaling…
Why the Word ‘Religion’ Resists Definition but Still Matters
TL;DR The label 'religion' as we use it is a relatively recent intellectual invention rather than an ancient category. Scholars…
Inge Lehmann: The Seismologist Who Identified Earth’s Inner Core
TL;DR The New York Times published an 'Overlooked No More' obituary highlighting Inge Lehmann, credited with discovering the Earth's inner…
Archiving Git Branches as Tags with Shell Completion and an Alias
TL;DR A git alias can convert a branch into a tag and delete the branch to keep branch lists tidy,…
Reverse Interview: Questions Software Engineers Must Ask Employers
TL;DR A checklist-style guide urges engineers to treat interviews as two-way evaluations and outlines practical questions to uncover real engineering…
The Reverse Interview: Key Questions Software Engineers Must Ask in Interviews
TL;DR A Substack post by Dollar Dhingra lays out a checklist of focused questions engineers should use to probe company…
US Trade Dominance Is Poised to Erode as Tariff Battles Intensify
TL;DR Cory Doctorow argues that tit-for-tat tariffs tied to the Trump era will force America’s trading partners to respond politically…
Could an Upside-Down Rowboat Let You Walk the Seafloor Like Jack Sparrow?
TL;DR A Wired feature examines the famous Pirates of the Caribbean scene where Jack Sparrow and Will Turner walk on…
Explaining Rust’s Loan Algebra: New Borrow Kinds, Tables, and Rules
TL;DR A recent writeup maps a set of proposed reference kinds and summarizes their interactions with three tables showing reborrows,…