#history
Wiki 7
- 86-DOS 1.00 and PC-DOS 1.00 Source Listings (Paterson Listings) Microsoft's April 2026 release of recovered, scanned, OCR'd 86-DOS 1.00 and PC-DOS 1.00 development listings from Tim Paterson, MIT-licensed
- A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry (acoup.blog) Bret Devereaux's blog on ancient military and economic history, read through pop culture — long multi-part Collections on how pre-modern societies actually worked
- Chinese Open Source: A Definitive History Kevin Xu traces Chinese open source from Linux in 1994 through Alibaba, Kaiyuanshe, Huawei and the state to the DeepSeek-era AI labs
- Empire as core and periphery An empire is a state whose core extracts resources from a culturally distinct periphery — which makes diversity structural, hierarchy permanent, and annihilation self-defeating
- From Open Source Software to Open Source Strategy Bill Gurley on open source as a corporate weapon, from Android and Kubernetes to autonomous vehicles and the fight over open-weight AI
- The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) Raymond Chen's long-running Microsoft devblog on Windows internals, calling conventions, archaeological NT/Win9x history, and the why behind compatibility quirks
- Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? Devereaux on what an empire actually is — core extracting from a culturally distinct periphery — and why strategy games model murderous nation-states instead
Books 2
- Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport Annotated reader of Lamport's papers — clocks, Byzantine Generals, Paxos, TLA+ — with commentary
- Readings in Database Systems (5th ed., the Red Book) The Red Book — annotated database-papers reading list with the editors' framing essays