Stories by sph

Pascal in Forth (1983)

Bootstrapping a simple compiler from nothing (2002)

Lossless web navigation with trails (2017)

Ask HN: Reddit died, nothing took its place. What will happen when HN dies?

The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days

The unreasonable UX of email verification

Work only 3 hours a day, but everyday (2016)

Zip – How not to design a file format (2021)

Ronald Wayne, the third Apple co-founder

The PGP Problem (2019)

The DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony

Does computer science have a future? (2009)

Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers

The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)

Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully programmable computer?

My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)

A short ballad dedicated to the growth of programs (1986)

Cola – combined lambda/object architecture

Home Office backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

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