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Hertzfeld, Andy oral history, part 1 of 2 - 300000188 - CHM

Andy Hertzfeld was born in 1953 in Philadelphia, studied applied math and CS at Brown, and pursued a PhD in CS at Berkeley. After seeing the Apple II debut in 1977, he started writing, publishing and selling Apple II software. Hired by Apple in 1979...

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Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown

The hover effects on Amazon's big 'ole "Shop by Department" mega dropdown are super fast. Look'it how quick each submenu fills in as your mouse moves down the list: It's instant. I got nerd sniped by...

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V0.1.0.0 of ghcup-gtk released

First release of ghcup-gtk, a GTK wrapper around the ghcup toolchain manager designed to appeal to newcomers to the language (and possibly newcomers to computer programming). Packages for various operating systems are d…

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Are We Legacy Computing Yet?

Tracking terminal emulator support for Unicode's "Symbols for Legacy Computing" (U+1FB00-U+1FBFF) and its supplement block (U+1CC00-U+1CEBF)

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C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

“Hardening” seems to be a very popular term in the C++ World in 2026. In this article we’ll explore what this word means and see some core examples. Can a hardened library make C++ fully safe? Let’s find out. The Core Idea When you learned about std::vector...