Stories by smartmic

The Mystery of a 1970s Bell Labs AI Chatbot Known as 'Red Father'

The Plain Old Documentation Format

The early years of logic programming (1988) [pdf]

SQL Reunion: People, Projects, and Politics (1995)

Little Languages for Pictures in Awk (1989) [pdf]

The Debian Voting System

A Career Cold Start Algorithm

MAME is a multi-purpose emulation framework

The (mostly 90s and 2000s) Shareware CD-ROM Collection

Unison File Synchronizer

Use Troff – a set of macros and tools to use troff efficiently (2018)

Microsoft's Unix-to-Windows Migration Guide (2003) [pdf]

"Legislative Innovation" as redirection activity

Pycco – quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming docu generator

Unveiling intra-person fingerprint similarity via deep contrastive learning

Oasis – a small, statically-linked Linux system

Neatroff – a new implementation of the Troff typesetting system (2017) [pdf]

Use Plaintext Email

AsmBB – a lightweight web forum engine written in assembly language

OPEN100 – a development framework for a small, pressurized water reactor

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