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At Living Computers: Museum + Labs, a DEC PDP-7 bootstrapping and running UNIX Version 0.

Special guest appearance by a strip of paper tape.

Links roundup: 7

• Jeremy Gayed at al. of the Times Open Team explains how to replace an API in flight without bringing it down to the ground. It starts with a "dark rollout."
• John D. Cook goes back to Unix basics (and goes deeper with cut). awk has been my friend for years, but no one ever told me about cut.

Grand master

Fernando Corbató, pioneer of interactive computing and Turing laureate, has passed.

In this video from 1963, Corbató describes state-of-the art batch processing using mag tape, offloading input-output to an IBM 1620.

Cookbooks

ICYMI: An excerpt from Clive Thompson's forthcoming story of the loss of women from the ranks of coders, commencing in about 1984.

Against linkrot

Some time ago (March 2012), the Goodwill Computer Museum in Austin morphed into the Museum of Computer Culture.

Encryption at rest

The Guardian kisses off MongoDB.

Another great thing about Postgres is how mature it is: every question we wanted to ask had in most cases already been answered on Stack Overflow.