History
The Hidden Internet
The old internet felt special because it was small. The early web was shaped by hobbyists and enthusiasts who built communities that were small enough to feel human. This feeling faded not because of nostalgia or technology but because the internet grew larger than the communities that once defined it. These communities were overshadowed by platforms built for scale but they continue to exist underneath the noise.
The Cycle of Reinvention - and What a Truly General Language Should Be
Introduction Programming languages are supposed to evolve, but most of the time they “revolve”. Every “new” language borrows the brilliance of its ancestors and adds new layers of safety, syntax, or ideology. Yet somehow, the more we add, the less complete the result becomes.
Genera - The Living Lisp Machine OS
Preface: Why Genera Still Matters Genera is a Lisp-based operating system and development environment originally built for Symbolics Lisp Machines in the 1980s and later ported to run in a virtual machine as Open Genera and, more recently, Portable Genera.
When Inferior Languages Won: How C Conquered Lisp and the World
When Inferior Languages Won Lisp was light years ahead: symbolic, self aware, and alive. C was simple, brittle, and close to the metal. Yet C won. Not because it was better, but because the world changed its definition of better.
The Decade We Forgot: How We Traded Depth for Scale
The Decade We Forgot There was a moment somewhere between 1988 and 1998 when computing stopped feeling alive. We did not notice it at first. The screens grew sharper, the CPUs faster, the GUIs prettier. But something subtle and essential faded: the idea that a computer was knowable.
Lost Wonders of Computing
Lost Wonders of Computing When I look back at the languages and systems of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, I don’t just see “old tech”. I see entire worlds of thought, ideas that modern computing quietly abandoned.