MyTerms (IEEE P7012 Draft Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms, unpacked here) has a simple conceptual structure that is open to many different protocols and roles for them. Note the arrows in this graphic: Protocols are required for those. Here is an alphabetized list of some protocols that I know so far, and what…

Feed readers view RSS as inbound, and blogging tools regard it as outbound.

If you’ve never used a PDP-11 before it’s probably because you simply weren’t around in the 70s and 80s. Although they started as expensive machines only in research labs and indu…

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Explore the use of functional options and default arguments in Elixir to create flexible and maintainable code. Learn how to use keyword lists for options and set default values effectively.

An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.

Explanation of Stardates and their relation to actual dates on Star Trek.

Tincat Group, Inc. History of Computing, MultiValue GIRLS Papers.

Tincat Group, Inc. Generalized Information Retrieval Language and System User Requirements Specification by Don Nelson 1965

This is the first part of a three-part look at the software I worked with at the start of my career.

Reality, the original NoSQL, MultiValue Database SQL enabled for interoperability

Best OS you never heard of? Pick OS was initially developed to manage spare parts for attack helicopter during Vietnam war

Gartner Information Technology Research on Case Study: Proactive IT Category Management Strategies to Ensure Business Alignment (IKEA)

Reading strange-sounding Swedish words is part of the joy of shopping at IKEA. Within the labyrinth of stylish flat pack furniture is a pänoply of ödd, åccented pröduct nämes, printed on hang tags, walls and banners. What most shoppers don’t know is that the names of those 12,000 products conform to a strict internal logic that offers a peek into Scandinavian culture.

System Design Refresher

Learn how to use rich types, phantom types, and partial application to eliminate impossible states and implement Clean Architecture's dependency inversion in a functional way. Discover why the compiler is your best friend for building robust domain models.

If you’re working on a modern JavaScript application and use a build tool like Vite to build and deploy your code, you can open the dist folder and find out […]

The FFmpeg School of Assembly Language provides a first step on the most interesting, challenging, and rewarding journey in programming. The lessons give a grounding in the way assembly language is…

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