Links tagged “history”
8 links, newest first.
scrollprize.org
The Vesuvius Challenge read an entire carbonized Herculaneum scroll for the first time, with imaging and ML. Two thousand years in a furnace, now readable. The rest is below, including how Elden Ring fakes its enemy AI with no ML at all.
stripe.com
How Stripe reworked its payment abstractions over ten years, from card tokens through the Sources API to PaymentIntents and PaymentMethods, and what each redesign cost.
bloomberg.com
Paul Ford's book-length 2015 Bloomberg Businessweek essay on what software is, how it gets made, and the culture of the people who write it.
blog.codinghorror.com
Post holding up the playful Beagle Bros software of the Apple II era as a model for interactive, animated textbooks on the web.
kuvaton.com
Side-by-side photographs of a Kabul public garden in 1970 and of the same spot in 2010, where the path, bridge and water are labelled on bare rubble.
theyliewedie.org
Liste de documentaires, reportages et courts-métrages militants (capitalisme, médias, travail, écologie) avec pour chacun des liens de téléchargement ou de streaming.
