A brief history of TPF

A really good walkthrough of how IBM invented ACP for the airlines, then generalized it into TPF to make a ton of money on high volume transaction clients.

Galois Fields for programmers

A little spooky math for your Halloween, if you want to up your game. Particularly useful for cryptograpy.

Compiler backdoors!

If you remember the famous Ken Thompson Turing Award lecture where he demonstrated how easy it is to backdoor a C compiler, we have here the full code and an in depth look at how it works.

Volume 4, Fascicle 7

A new The Art of Computer Programming fascicle has just been released - let us begin to study it.

New features in Perl 5.40

Just in case you missed it, a list of new features in Perl 5.40. Nothing mind blowing but all appreciated.

Seeing Pi in a Pentium chip die

Amazingly, with the right microscope, you can see where Pi is encoded in a Pentium's internal ROM.

Writing a container from scratch

Great little intro to how Unix tools are used to construct containers, from Kevin Boone.