I've Seen This Movie Before
From Visual Basic and Delphi to AI coding agents: the promise of effortless software sounds familiar — and the strange paradox of what happens to us when everything becomes easy.
A physicist who writes code, thinking out loud.
Software, systems, physics and a bit of history — written so a twenty-year-old learns something and a dinosaur still has fun.
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A catio in Fethiye, eleven residents with strong opinions, and a computer the size of a pack of chewing gum. Part 1: the squad, the board, and the rule that a feature only exists once it has been measured.
History The Languages That Built Our Digital World
From Fortran and C to Python and Rust: an interactive history of the ideas that survived, the compromises that didn't disappear, and the languages still running our world.
Physics Almost Nothing: How the Neutrino Won Its Fifth Nobel Prize
Two anomalies, mistaken for errors, changed what we know about matter. Then a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice turned the same elusive particle into a new kind of telescope.