Prompted by another project idea that popped into my mind, I did some Unix archaeology and looked at the original sources. This is the most fun I've ever had reading someone else's code - probably due to the historical significance. But also because of how delightfully approachable it was, compared to modern monstrocities.
The Source History of Cat
A tour of the many historical implementations of the Unix cat utility.
What I Found Interesting in Claude Code's Source
A breakdown of the most interesting engineering patterns in Claude Code's leaked source code: composable system prompts, runtime instruction injection, context compression, forking, prompt caching architecture, and more.
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …
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The Curse of Xanadu
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.
The Curse of Xanadu
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.
Rethinking the Unix Philosophy: Evolution or Collapse?
Explore the evolution and challenges of the Unix Philosophy in modern software development. Learn its relevance and implications in today's tech landscape.
META II: Digital Vellum in the Digital Scriptorium: Revisiting Schorre’s 1962 compiler-compiler: Queue: Vol 13, No 1
Some people do living history -- reviving older skills and material culture by reenacting Waterloo or knapping flint knives. One pleasant rainy weekend in 2012, I set my sights a little more recently and settled in for a little meditative retro-computing,...
The Rust Programming Language - The Rust Programming Language
by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, and Chris Krycho, with contributions from the Rust Community
kyju.org
Horribly misusing Rust features to provide provable memory safety and tracing garbage collection for pointer soup.
Nobody Cracks Open a Programming Book Anymore · unix.foo
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026
Review of Claude Code-generated code for a bookshop, March 2026 · GitHub
