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Hi HN! I put together a 4-hour conversational audiobook tracing their history—from IBM punch cards to the internet, the cloud, hyperscalers, and today’s AI factories. It’s part of a new long-form series on the history of infrastructure (first two episodes were on coal). Would love your thoughts—both on the story and on whether this “conversational audiobook” format works.
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I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io
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The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca
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The intro to Microsoft's "Serial"-style Halo podcast
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Bringing ‘A Brief History of Time’ to a whole new generation
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A podcast about data, science, stories, and time.
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