Notes concerning “History”

• Why John Backus Was on the Wrong Track 2007 (updated 2019-05-05) (48 minutes)
• Emacs22 annoyances 2007 to 2009 (4 minutes)
• Learning low level stuff is not just fun, but also useful 2007 to 2009 (5 minutes)
• Copyright status of the Oxford English Dictionary: relevant data 2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
• Notes on Raph Levien's "Io" Programming Language 2007 to 2009 (10 minutes)
• The AL programming language, dimensional analysis, and typing: do different dimensions really exist? 2007 to 2009 (2 minutes)
• bytecode interpreters for tiny computers 2007-09 (61 minutes)
• mechanical computation: with Merkle gates, height fields, and thread 2010-06-28 (36 minutes)
• Critical defense mass 2013-05-17 (14 minutes)
• Steampunk spintronics: magnetoresistive relay logic? 2013-05-17 (15 minutes)
• Quadtree compression of terminal video RAM to do a megapixel windowing system in 6 KiB 2013-05-17 (9 minutes)
• Saturation detector 2013-05-17 (3 minutes)
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner tweets about the attempt to kidnap Assange 2014-04-24 (3 minutes)
• 2025 manufacturing and economics scenario 2014-04-24 (24 minutes)
• What might Diamond-Age-like phyles look like in the real 21st century? 2014-04-24 (9 minutes)
• Plato was not particularly democratic; ἄρχειν is not “participating in politics” 2014-04-24 (5 minutes)
• Ideas to ship in 2014 2014-04-24 (updated 2019-05-05) (35 minutes)
• Archival with a universal virtual computer (UVC) 2014-06-29 (17 minutes)
• Entry-C: a Simula-like backwards-compatible object-oriented C 2015-04-05 (updated 2017-04-03) (24 minutes)
• Editor buffers 2015-07-15 (updated 2015-09-03) (16 minutes)
• More thoughts on powerful primitives for simplified computer systems architecture 2015-08-18 (updated 2015-11-02) (165 minutes)
• Ternary mergesort 2015-09-03 (2 minutes)
• Exponential technology and capital 2016-02-18 (updated 2017-07-19) (8 minutes)
• US$10M for a new, much better McMurdo Base, or less 2016-05-18 (updated 2016-05-19) (7 minutes)
• Transmission line computer 2016-07-11 (updated 2019-07-23) (7 minutes)
• Compact namespace sharing 2016-07-25 (7 minutes)
• Vitruvius could have taken photographs 2016-07-30 (1 minute)
• The etymology of “tradeoff” 2016-08-11 (5 minutes)
• Executable scholarship, or algorithmic scholarly communication 2016-08-11 (13 minutes)
• Solar dehumidifier 2016-08-11 (5 minutes)
• State of the world 2016 2016-09-05 (10 minutes)
• Further notes on algebras for dark silicon 2016-09-17 (updated 2017-04-18) (23 minutes)
• Solar-powered portable computers 2016-09-17 (updated 2018-10-28) (15 minutes)
• Hybrid RAM 2016-09-24 (5 minutes)
• Changing the basis to a more expressive one with better affordances 2016-09-29 (5 minutes)
• World War III is starting (?) 2016-10-17 (2 minutes)
• Academic lineage 2016-10-30 (updated 2019-11-24) (15 minutes)
• Self replication changes 2017-01-16 (5 minutes)
• Non-inverting logic 2017-02-18 (updated 2019-07-20) (8 minutes)
• Thredsnek: a tiny Python-flavored programming language 2017-03-20 (7 minutes)
• The continuous-web press and the continuous press of the World-Wide Web 2017-03-20 (6 minutes)
• The history of NoSQL and dbm 2017-04-10 (16 minutes)
• Studies support authority 2017-04-10 (2 minutes)
• Quasicard: a hypothetical reimagining of HyperCard and TiddlyWiki 2017-04-18 (updated 2017-06-09) (18 minutes)
• Hipster stack 2017 2017-04-28 (updated 2017-05-04) (26 minutes)
• Nova RDOS 2017-06-15 (22 minutes)
• Vector instructions 2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
• Multiplication with squares 2017-07-19 (updated 2019-07-09) (5 minutes)
• An RPN CPU instruction set doubling as user interface 2017-07-19 (updated 2019-07-10) (21 minutes)
• Some notes on reverse-engineering The Wizard’s Castle 2018-04-26 (9 minutes)
• 2017 [Provisional English translation of intercepted transmission] 2018-04-27 (updated 2018-07-14) (13 minutes)
• Quasimode keyboard 2018-07-14 (24 minutes)
• Gradient pixels 2018-08-16 (updated 2018-10-28) (9 minutes)
• Scriptable windowing for Wercam 2018-10-26 (updated 2019-07-24) (26 minutes)
• Text editor design for e-ink displays 2018-10-28 (23 minutes)
• A simple virtual machine for vector math? 2018-11-06 (updated 2018-11-09) (15 minutes)
• Bootstrapping instruction set 2018-11-06 (updated 2019-05-03) (19 minutes)
• The Stretch book is truly alien 2018-11-27 (6 minutes)
• Commentaries on reading Engelbart’s “Augmenting Human Intellect” 2018-12-24 (updated 2018-12-25) (25 minutes)
• Dehydrating processes and other interaction models 2018-12-28 (updated 2019-01-01) (36 minutes)
• Transactional event handlers 2019-01-24 (14 minutes)
• Elastic metamaterials 2019-03-19 (17 minutes)
• Fractal palettes 2019-04-02 (7 minutes)
• Gardening machines 2019-04-02 (updated 2019-04-24) (32 minutes)
• Notch scorn 2019-04-20 (5 minutes)
• Three-stack generic macro assembler (design sketch) 2019-04-30 (8 minutes)
• Microsoft Windows uses \ for filenames because OS/8 programs used / for switches 2019-05-25 (2 minutes)
• Categorical zero sum prohibition 2019-05-27 (updated 2019-06-01) (23 minutes)
• On the method of finite differences used in Babbage’s Difference Engine 2019-05-31 (6 minutes)
• Computation with strain 2019-06-13 (17 minutes)
• Everything is money? 2019-08-31 (4 minutes)