🗿 EBCDIC Archaeology

Mainframe Character Sets, IBM Heritage, Cultural Encoding, Legacy Translation, Historical Standards

Archaeologists perplexed to find west African ancestry in early medieval England
the-independent.com·3d
👪Geneology
Screwed up characters from a TRS-80 Model 1 (Level 1 BASIC)
classic-computers.org.nz·1d
📺VT100
1Password 8.11.6
tidbits.com·7h
🔤Character Encoding
Short circuit: Electronics supplier to tech giants suffers ransomware shutdown
theregister.com·7h
🔓Hacking
A lost game and other curiosities from a 1989 IBM PC floppy (marnetto.net)
marnetto.net·1d
🕹️Retro Gaming
Stop Calling It OSINT
dutchosintguy.com·18h
🔎OSINT Techniques
Show HN: Precisionconvert.io – Professional unit converter for engineers
precisionconvert.io·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📐Arithmetic Precision
very worrying: Possibly fake Micron 9550 Pro 30.2Tb drive.
reddit.com·1d·
Discuss: r/homelab
🔒Secure Boot
HoundDog.ai Code Scanner Shifts Data Privacy Responsibility Left
devops.com·1d
📏Code Metrics
Racket 8.18 Released
blog.racket-lang.org·19h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🧠Lisp Dialects
Launch HN: BlankBio (YC S25) – Making RNA Programmable
news.ycombinator.com·11h·
Discuss: Hacker News
⚡Incremental Computation
Learning to read code is more important than learning to write it (2018)
letterstoanewdeveloper.com·12h·
Discuss: Hacker News
📏Code Metrics
From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix
netflixtechblog.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
📊Feed Optimization
I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
openmymind.net·1d·
Discuss: Lobsters, Hacker News
🌐NetworkProtocols
Build a RAG application with LangChain and Local LLMs powered by Ollama
dev.to·14h·
Discuss: DEV
💻Local LLMs
DevLog #1 - ValidateLite: Building a Zero-Config Data Validation Tool
dev.to·1d·
Discuss: DEV
✅Archive Validation
A Single-Cable Solution for USB Data and Logs
hackster.io·20h
💾Floppy Imaging
Multiagent orchestration framework to manage swarms via drag and drop
github.com·10h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🌊Streaming Systems
When AI optimizations miss the mark: A case study in array shape calculation
questdb.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News, r/programming
⚡Performance Mythology
Zero Context Exhaustion: Building Production-Ready AI Coding Teams with Claude Code Sub-agents
dev.to·3h·
Discuss: DEV
✨Effect Handlers