Feb 12, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse An anecdote about backward compatibility A long time ago I worked on a debugger program that our company used to debug software that it sold that ran on IBM System 370. We had IBM 3270 CRT terminals that could display (I think) eight colo...
Feb 12, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Almost-trivial theorems A couple of years back I wrote an article about this bit of mathematical folklore: Mathematical folklore contains a story about how Acta Quandalia published a paper proving that all partially unifo...
Feb 12, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse Crooked politicians love crab cakes! I recently posted an article about the 2013 Philadelphia Traffic Court fiasco, in which most of the Traffic Court judges were convicted of accepting bribes: According to the indictment, Perri accep...
Feb 12, 2026 from The Universe of Discourse John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds BuyArtificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org(with kickback)(without kickback) One of the better books I read in college was Artifical Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher John Haugelan...
Feb 12, 2026 from Dev Blog Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron
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Feb 12, 2026 from Dev Blog Create custom VSCode shortcuts and code snippets Create custom VSCode shortcuts and code snippets
Feb 12, 2026 from Dev Blog Git Cheatsheet - Useful Git Commands Git Cheatsheet, Useful Git Commands and worflows
Feb 12, 2026 from Dev Blog How to install Java and Maven on MacOS, Linux and Windows How to install Java and Maven on MacOS, Linux and Windows
Feb 12, 2026 from Dev Blog Create a React project from scratch, with TypeScript and Vite Create a React project from scratch, with TypeScript and Vite
Feb 12, 2026 from Dev Blog How to crop, split, remove pages from PDFs with Java and PDFBox How to crop, split, remove pages from PDFs with Java and PDFBox
