Ever wondered about how Windows 3 was architectured? This is an interesting read. It was really complex though, you can really tell it's in the middle of several transitions.

Or why the XML roots of the web are important to keep in shape. I'm not necessarily in love with how verbose XML is, but it's been a great enabler for interoperability. That's indeed the latter reason which pushed Google to try to get rid of it as much as possible.

A talk from Casey Muratori who is pushing his ideas on software architecture. This one is very interesting on the long history detour it does. Shows well how we keep rediscovering stuff which sometimes go back to the early times of computer science.

Interesting exploration about where the alphabet comes from. Interesting debate about the abjad vs alphabet classification in the comments as well.

Very interesting article. Where diacritics come from? Why English doesn't have them?

This is a lovely idea I think. Good way to pay homage to lost ones.

It is indeed much easier nowadays to preserve produced content. We have so many open and simple formats to choose from. It's not always been like this.

A reminder that the technique goes back to way before XP.

Ever realized raccoons had something to do with the history of computing? And children illustrations? Work of art if you ask me... we have to get back to the time of the computer magazines.

Very nice account of the history behind vi and vim. Also some special mentions of Emacs and why it has such a different lineage.

Are we sure the Moomins are really a cute tale? I always felt them slightly off, but indeed it goes much darker than I suspected.

This paper is a look back at SCCS. This is nice to see how much progress was made in version control systems since then, it's also interesting to see how the design choices changed.

Interesting rambling and exploration. What would a computer built to last a century look like?

Once again the music labels can't understand the cultural value of building archives. Let's hope they loose the lawsuit.

A very precious document. Shows great organization in the work of Knuth of course but the self-reflection has profound lessons pertaining to estimates, type of errors we make, etc.

Good explanation on how the agile movement scaled down about design over time in its literature. It's probably its biggest failure. The good thing is that the pendulum is starting to swing in the other direction a bit (that's probably why Beck is now working on a book series on software design).

A very precious philosopher from the 20th century. Her texts are still very precious and resonate today. In this piece it's focusing about tech relevant excerpts, she had plenty to say about today's politics as well.

Excellent clip for the W3C 30th anniversary. Shows the big milestones and evolution of the WWW.

Excellent piece, we're a civilisation whose culture is built on shifting sands and... toy plastics. Guess what will survive us?

Very nice interview. This is an interesting reflection on the past 20+ years of Agile Software Development.