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Schedule

What we publish, when, and how often. Updated on every deploy.

Each category publishes on a set day of the week, at its own rhythm — usually once a week. The table below shows each category's publishing day, how often a new post lands, and its most recent post.

Category Cadence Publishes Latest post
Computing Every week Mondays The Mother of All Demos, or the ninety minutes nobody was quite ready for · 2026-08-10
Code Editors Every week Mondays Visual Studio Code: how a failing browser editor became the one everyone uses · 2026-08-10
Software Architecture Every week Mondays Kubernetes: the helmsman Google almost didn't ship · 2026-08-10
Cars Every week Mondays Ford's moving assembly line: 12.5 hours to 93 minutes · 2026-08-10
AI Every week Tuesdays Backpropagation, 1986: the algorithm that revived neural networks · 2026-08-11
Writing Systems Every week Tuesdays Pitman's shorthand, or writing faster than speech · 2026-08-11
Programming Languages Every week Tuesdays Python: born in an empty office over Christmas 1989 · 2026-08-11
Coffee Every week Tuesdays A large shop in Tahtakale: Istanbul's first coffeehouse · 2026-08-11
Shoes Every week Wednesdays The Nike Air sole: Frank Rudy's twenty-fourth pitch · 2026-08-12
Timepieces Every week Wednesdays Peter Henlein's pocket watch, or how time learned to travel · 2026-08-12
Phones Every week Wednesdays Apple Intelligence, or the phone that learned to write back · 2026-08-12
Sports Every week Wednesdays The last Olympiad, 393 CE · 2026-08-12
Bridges Every week Thursdays Sydney's Iron Lung · 2026-08-06
Locks & Keys Every week Thursdays No springs: Emil Henriksson's disc detainer lock, Helsinki, 1907 · 2026-08-06
Maps Every week Thursdays Al-Idrisi's silver map, or how a Norman king bought the world · 2026-08-06
Motorcycles Every week Thursdays Harley-Davidson and the ten-by-fifteen shed · 2026-08-06
Money Every week Fridays The Federal Reserve, or the duck hunt that never happened · 2026-08-07
Cryptography Every week Fridays Diffie, Hellman, and the key two strangers can share · 2026-08-07
Video Games Every week Fridays Half-Life, or how Valve put the story inside the corridors · 2026-08-07

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