The University In The AI Era
Carson Gross, htmx creator and CS professor, on how AI reshapes what a computer science degree is actually for.
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The Low-Tech AI of Elden Ring
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Software Preservation Group
The Computer History Museum's collection of source code, design documents, and materials preserving historically significant software.
Images in 50 Characters
A creative coding challenge where images are generated from 50-character programs using a stack-based language with built-in Perlin noise, trig, and pixel coordinates.
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Linux From Scratch
Build a complete Linux system from raw source tarballs. Maintained since 1999, currently at version 12.4.
Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
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Some Unusual Trees
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