This was published 9 days before Wright brothers’ Kitty Hawk made its first successful flight.

This idea seems pretty cool to me, although I'm sure it's been done many times before 😂 What do you think? @StairwayToRetro @Supmsx @greayson2532 @XRPee1983 #crt #msx #retrogaming #basic

That feeling when your 6 yo is interested in your book about silicon transistors and you rush to get your cpu collection to show it to them.

Fable isn't the first. In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold. Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.

Commander Dave Scott of Apollo 15 validates Galileo's theory on the Moon by dropping a hammer and a feather, proving that objects fall at the same speed, independent of their mass.

A DEVELOPER PROVED THAT MOST OF THE LANGUAGE RUNNING EVERY WEBSITE YOU USE IS A MINEFIELD AND THAT ALMOST NO ONE WAS EVER TAUGHT WHICH PARTS ARE SAFE An hour from Douglas Crockford, the man who invented JSON, on the good parts of JavaScript buried under a pile of blunders nobody warned you about. -> The moment it lands, every weird bug makes sense. The language never had time to be polished. It went global in months, bad parts and all, and you inherited every one of them. Global variables. Silent semicolon insertion. eval. Coercion that turns a simple comparison into a coin flip. Most people never learned to avoid them -- they just lose hours and blame themselves. Writing JavaScript that runs was never the skill -> knowing which half of it to never touch is. And when an AI agent happily generates the bad parts at scale, the person who knows the safe subset is the one who catches it before it ships. Everyone writes JavaScript. Almost no one was shown the line between the parts that save you and the parts that quietly burn you. Bookmark and Watch it ↓

A free MIT course breaking down fundamental math concepts in computer science: bit.ly/4kXuqQ6 Here, MIT prof. Erik Demaine breaks down state machines (Lecture 4). v/@MITOCW

Julius Caesar knife block.

Absolutely love this. A US police officer does keepie-uppie and is cheered on by the Tartan Army in Boston. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿♥️🇺🇸

Guided missile of early 1960. Note how much electronics you need when there is no Microprocessor available

Discipline is about continuity.

A little screenshot of my VAX running htop. It runs at 111MHz, has the max 512MB of RAM, and, of course, a single CPU core. But it still gets a lot done :-)

While millions knew Carl Sagan from television, his students at Cornell University experienced his philosophy firsthand. He famously taught an undergraduate introductory seminar where the entire grade depended on challenging assumptions. The unwritten rule was simple: students could earn an “A” for completely disagreeing with Sagan on a scientific or philosophical point, provided they used strict empirical logic to support their claim. The lesson was intellectual humility. Sagan would deliberately present a convincing but flawed scientific argument, wait to see who blindly accepted it because of his authority, and then dismantle it to show how easily the human mind can be swayed by a famous title or confident delivery.

17 equations that changed the world by Ian Stewart

The ACT Apricot Xen (1985)

Build Your Own Database From Scratch in C it walks you through building SQLite from scratch. starts with a REPL, then adds a B-tree, then paging, then persistence to disk by the end you understand why databases are structured the way they are. not just how to use them

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

Digital microfluidics: The art of controlling droplets with electricity

PDP-8 Minicomputer The machine that started a revolution.In 1957, two engineers named Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). What began as a small startup grew into one of the most influential technology giants of the 20th century — peaking at nearly $14 billion in revenue and employing over 120,000 people worldwide.DEC’s greatest legacy? They didn’t just build computers. They democratized them.While massive, million-dollar mainframes ruled the world from behind glass walls guarded by specialists, DEC created the minicomputer — a radical new class of machines that were smaller, faster, cheaper, and actually usable by normal humans.And the star of the show was the PDP-8.Introduced in 1965, the 12-bit PDP-8 became the first commercially successful minicomputer in history. It was compact enough to fit in a single cabinet, cost a fraction of a mainframe, and sold like crazy — over 50,000 units in total.Suddenly, universities, laboratories, factories, and even smaller companies could afford real computing power. The PDP-8 didn’t just crunch numbers — it helped launch entire new industries, inspired a generation of programmers, and served as the crucial bridge between the giant mainframes of the 1960s and the personal computers that would change the world in the decades to follow.Many of the pioneers who later built Silicon Valley cut their teeth on a PDP-8.It wasn’t just a computer. It was the spark that made computing personal.