After listening to an episode of the excellent Developer Voices podcast (hosted by @krisajenkins.bsky.social) about @rescript-lang.org, I noticed that ReScript didn’t have its own Wikipedia article. So I created one: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReScrip...

I submitted a passport renewal application online last Sunday. It was approved and my new passport was mailed on Tuesday. I received it on Friday 🎉 This is the way it should be!

Here is an incredibly inspiring story about a homeless boy in Uganda who grew up to be a child advocate in the U.S., who has fostered 47 kids and adopted 3 more, and the man who changed his life. www.cnn.com/2025/09/14/u...

I think my knowledge of computer history is decent, yet only now am I learning about Stephanie Shirley, a pioneer in the tech industry who started a software company in 1962 employing mostly women working part-time at home. Way ahead of her time 🫡 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/b...

Among all the amazing retrotech I saw at #vcfwest, there were a few 1980s Polish home computers. I noticed that one of them, the Cobra 1, only had an article in Polish Wikipedia, so I used it as the basis of a new article in English Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_1

The moment I read the headline, I knew it was about @tsmullaney.bsky.social — looks like an update to his book “The Chinese Typewriter” is needed 😄 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

As I read Marcin (@aresluna.org)’s wonderful essay on the Gorton font, I realized I had been noticing it my whole life subconsciously, and the words using it always felt important, since it was almost always engraved. If it’s engraved, it must be important, right? aresluna.org/the-hardest-...

This holiday season, I learned that the melody of the Christmas carol “Carol of the Bells” is from a Ukrainian New Year’s song, “Shchedryk“ (Щедрик), which is based on a traditional Ukrainian folk song. Here it is in the original Ukrainian: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Rl...

Happy New Year everyone 🇺🇦

I’ve joked with my friends that I want to get into building hand-crafted, artisan software. Then Lian Proven of The Register makes the case for it, such as higher quality and being more attuned to a specific group’s needs. www.theregister.com/2024/09/18/t...

I’m a bit too young to have watched (or certainly understood) the sitcom Taxi, but I remember the opening theme song vividly. Here is Bob James, who wrote the song, performing it with his jazz trio at age 82. (Sometimes the YouTube algorithm is good for something 🙂) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqw3...

Just watched Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring at Stanford. Totally stunning and worth watching. Also enjoyed her conversation with @tsmullaney.bsky.social — like him, I didn’t fully understand what I saw 😂 but it set off my brain in all sorts of directions. live.stanford.edu/events/24-25...

Salute to Thomas Kurtz, who created BASIC with John Kemeny in 1964. BASIC was my first programming language, and I stuck with it long enough to graduate to QuickBASIC, without GOTOs or line numbers. In fact, I first really got structured programming in QuickBASIC. www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/r...

I love this collection of free online creativity tools, from drawing and music to creative coding. www.bryanbraun.com/lets-get-cre...

Roy Clay Sr. was such a pioneer: led development of HP’s first computer, first Black executive at HP, first Black elected to the Palo Alto City Council… The history of Black Americans in Silicon Valley and the tech industry needs to be better known. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...