These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
The advice for writing better software manuals in this article, published in the May 1983 issue of BYTE magazine, is still useful, assuming software manuals are still produced. The article noted that software with good manuals sold better, which makes sense.
For the love of all that is eyecandy, if your software has a GUI or outputs graphics, please add to the README.md on GitHub at least one full size screenshot (not a reduced, illegible stamp size version). And if the software only does console output, it would be great if you could add a screenshot of a terminal session.
Those who dismiss or deride BASIC don't go beyond the language. Guillaume Chereau points out there's more to BASIC as on early microcomputers it provided a full development environment too, almost an IDE.
I'd say BASIC also supported a REPL-based, exploratory programming style similar to Lisp's.
A short history of version control systems. It doesn't mention versioning file systems but maybe the author implicitly lumped them under manual systems.
An insigthful analysis on why there are no minicomputers anymore. More specifically it discusses why the minicomputer form factor, architecture, and vendors disappeared.
My visit to the Ctrl+Alt Museum retrocomputing museum in Pavia, Italy, blew my mind. Why? The hundreds of photos I took speak for themselves, go see them now.
Opened a year and a half ago, the museum is a new and little known geeky gem packed with all sorts of vintage computing hardware and stuff. It's run by a non profit group of passionate collectors, enthusiasts, and makers who also do outreach and education activities.
It's a multitude of parallel universes in which every classic computer and software achieved success, and gained the ecosystem and love it always deserved.
Astronomy, space, Android & Google, retrocomputing, Lisp, coding.No stock photos, SEO, marketing, clickbait, ads, or calls to action. I Just enjoy sharing my geeky interests.