Ken Thompson — Person Summaries
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Why so many distros? The Weird History of Linux
Linux’s explosion into nearly a thousand distributions traces back to a simple idea: a free, open kernel that thousands of developers can remix...
A brief history of programming...
Programming’s origin story starts with binary—electricity behaving like on/off—then accelerates through a chain of inventions that make machines...
CLIs Are Making A Comeback
Command-line interfaces are back in fashion—not because old Unix tools stopped working, but because modern terminals and developer workflows made CLI...
The Rabbit Is A Scam
Rabbit R1’s “lamb” AI pitch—an on-device system that can turn requests into real actions across apps—has come under intense scrutiny after repeated...
C Must Die
C’s rise is inseparable from Unix’s early need to move across hardware, but its modern “portability” bargain comes with a darker catch: undefined...
Software Is Changing (Again) - Andrej Karpathy
Software is changing again—this time less by rewriting programs and more by rewriting what “software” means. Andrej Karpathy frames three eras:...
Attention Spoiled Developers
Go’s rise is framed as a corrective to “spoiled” developer culture: instead of chasing ego, novelty, or flashy ergonomics, Go delivers a workmanlike,...
The Greatest Software Engineers of All Time
The central through-line is that modern computing didn’t emerge from a single breakthrough—it grew out of repeated, practical attempts to mechanize...
2 Language Creators vs 2 Idiots | The Standup
Functional programming didn’t “take off” in the way many early advocates expected—not because the ideas failed, but because the label became slippery...