| 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 |