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2026

Collisions, Combinatorics, and Markov Analysis: `The Balance` Game Designoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2026
Number of bags of a given length with exactly d distinct elementsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
Inventing ELIZA (Review)original ↗
10 Aug 2026
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review)original ↗
29 Jun 2026
TimesSquare Programming Puzzle - Part 1?original ↗
23 Apr 2026
Plain Text Accounting & Financial Reportingoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
README: A Bookish History of Computing (Review)original ↗
14 Apr 2026
Fibonacci's Composed Fractionsoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
The Life and Work of George Boole (Review)original ↗
19 Feb 2026
OREGON (Trail): BASIC Game Design from the Teletype Eraoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2026

2025

Design of a Wild Shape/Polymorph Decision Aidoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2025
Emergency Software: Software Development Lessons from EMISARIoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2025
Interview with John Bridges (PCPaint, GRASP, GL Pro)original ↗
11 Jul 2025
The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers (Review)original ↗
11 Jun 2025
Improving Product Discovery of Tabletop RPG Maps (Preliminary Investigation)original ↗
4 Jun 2025
Connect Four Ply Datasetoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2025
Routines of Substitution (Review)original ↗
3 Apr 2025
Ludii Wumpus Worldoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2025
Investigating MacPaint's Source Codeoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2025

2024

Programming Lewis Carroll's *Memoria Technica*original ↗
26 Dec 2024
Using LLMs to Explain Historical Code: FLOW-MATIC Investigationoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2024
Chatbots Decoded: Exploring AI (Review)original ↗
15 Nov 2024
Mathematical Analysis of the Royal Game of Uroriginal ↗
29 Oct 2024
A New Lookoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2024
Aboutoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2024
Exposure to Art: a MTA Case Studyoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2024
PostScript® 1.0 - A Code Studyoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2024
ZLister Announcementoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2024
Study of Historical Codeoriginal ↗
1 May 2024
Reserve Studies - A Policy Analysisoriginal ↗
16 Apr 2024
How User Groups Made Software Reuse a Realityoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2024
Method of Differences Add'l Applicationsoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2024
Method of Differencesoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2024

2023

Konrad Zuse's Early Computers (Review)original ↗
2 Dec 2023
Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground (Review)original ↗
10 Nov 2023
Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds (Review)original ↗
9 Sept 2023
Godot4 HTML5 Export Development Serveroriginal ↗
14 Aug 2023
Drawing Down the Moon (Review)original ↗
4 Aug 2023
Range to Dice Notationoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2023
Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union (Review)original ↗
23 Jun 2023
Availability, Fire Safety, and the IBM 704original ↗
6 Apr 2023
Surviving the Blizzard: An Application of Markov Chainsoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2023

2022

Slaying Dragonoriginal ↗
27 Dec 2022
Simplifying Logicoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
A Pain Scale for On-call?original ↗
19 Sept 2022
COBOL's Map Reduceoriginal ↗
29 Aug 2022
Hero Code Examples for Programming Languages: Revisiting Trabb-Pardo_Knuthoriginal ↗
16 Aug 2022
Rosetta Codeoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2022
PLATO and Approximate String Matchingoriginal ↗
25 Jul 2022
Quality of early 1970s approximate string matching algorithmsoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2022
Computing's Woodstock - Los Alamos 1976original ↗
8 Jun 2022
Dawn of Computer Musicoriginal ↗
26 May 2022
Fifty years of strings: Language design and the string datatypeoriginal ↗
2 May 2022
Format Specifiersoriginal ↗
28 Apr 2022
Page Rangesoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2022
Infinite Raceoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2022

2021

Update to Game of Ur Backgroundoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
Finding Sierpiński in the Oddest Placesoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2021
How to Solve Incidents - a research proposaloriginal ↗
3 Dec 2021
Game Wizardsoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2021
Engagement Insider Threatoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2021
Why I like lobste.rsoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2021
Updated Rss Feedoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2021
Royal Game of Ur (Background)original ↗
29 Oct 2021
Little Intuitionoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2021
Do Not Eraseoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2021
Interviewing Questionsoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2021
Patterns of Progressoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2021
| ℤ→ℤoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2021
Prior Writingsoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2021