Stories by open-paren

What makes a programming language succeed?

On this day: CEEFAX - world's first teletext service launched by the BBC in 1974

Book: Demystifying Public Speaking (full text online)

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021: Winners

The Peter Principle: Promotion leads to incompetence [audio]

Transmitting broadband across the Congo River using beams of light

Algorithms: From the Ancients to the Internet [audio]

A modern photographer using a Victorian method: wet plate photography [video]

Royal Institute of British Architects 2021 Prize: The six shortlised buildings

Kai Fu Lee, former CEO of Google China, on where next for AI [audio]

GOV.UK: A single sign-on for government services and personalisation

Why we never sold Basecamp by the seat (2017)

Meat Atlas: Facts and figures about the animals we eat 2021 [pdf]

Carrd – a single-page site builder is now a venture-backed company

Book excerpt: Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint [pdf]

Julia user and developer survey 2021

Built with Deno: thoughts after using Deno “in production”

New Nuclear: molten salt reactor using nuclear waste as fuel [audio]

Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

Turning a simple card game into gripping cinema (Casino Royale spoilers) [video]

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