Stories by susam

Control, escape, and meta tricks

The case of the supersized shebang (2019)

Show HN: Userscripts: Big HN, Dark HN, and No HN

Word now flags double spaces as errors, ending the great space debate (2020)

The Truth About Nordstrom’s Legendary Tire Story

How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)

GNU's Bulletin Volume 1 No. 1 (1986)

Re: Flexible Function Naming

Lem is the editor/IDE well-tuned for Common Lisp

Do stars become more metal-rich as they evolve?

SNMP

Self-Printing Machine Code (2005)

Khan Academy rebuilt their Python monolith into services-oriented back end in Go

Fontemon: Video Game in a Font

Self-Printing Machine Code (2005)

Against URL-based content rendering

The Story of Mel: The Life and Work of Mel Kaye, a Real Programmer

Emacs Web Buttons

Against URL-Based Content Rendering

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