How to make a wifi cartridge for the original Game Boy. The things that people do with old hardware are pretty wild! Also has a very thorough and technical breakdown of what’s required to make ...
https://www.davekellam.com/2022/01/a-wifi-cartridge-for-the-original-game-bot/
The Guardian on migrating from Mongo to Postgres. It’s interesting to read about implementing a major database change like this with no downtime.
https://www.davekellam.com/2019/01/the-guardian-on-migrating-from-mongo-to-postgres-its-interesting/
I just finished reading Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (h/t @boop). I thoroughly enjoyed it, and learned quite a bit. I’m also a sucker for...
Lou Montulli, a former engineer with Netscape, writes about the origins of the blink tag. It seems that it was a lament for the lack of features in text-based browsers. Back in 1994 I was a found...
https://www.davekellam.com/2015/01/origins-of-the-blink-tag/
PSY’s Gangnam Style video broke YouTube’s view-counter: We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met P...
https://www.davekellam.com/2014/12/gangnam-style-broke-youtube/
Earlier this year, Google’s Gmail service fixed itself before the engineers did. From the post-mortem blog post: Users began seeing these errors on affected services at 11:02 a.m., and at that ...
The NYC Resistor hacker collective recently got an old PDP-11/34 up and running again. We rescued two PDP-11/34 computers and their associated equipment from a storage unit in the Bronx and have ...
https://www.davekellam.com/2014/05/on-booting-up-a-pdp-1134/
Tim Harford takes a look at big data for the Financial Times and asks if we are we making a big mistake. But the “big data” that interests many companies is what we might call “found data�...
Microsoft released the source code to MS-DOS v1.1 and v2.0
https://www.davekellam.com/2014/04/source-code-for-early-ms-dos-and-word/
Here’s a somewhat fluffy NYT Magazine piece from Daniel Engber, titled Who Made That Progress Bar? He credits it to an interface designer named Bob Stahl. I found this tidbit interesting: Myers...