Blogs are back

My colleague Todd and I dashed off a quick refactoring of some one-off work that the team did a couple months ago (Todd's part was the much greater lift). Et voilà, our second liveblog-style collection of breaking news posts on a critical topic: Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice. With all the yummy reusability that will enable the newsroom to build new collections as the world rumbles on. Maybe a collection for the November elections?

It never went away

John Delany reports that COBOL is back.

It is estimated $3 trillion in daily commerce flows through COBOL systems, while 95% of ATM swipes and 80% of in-person banking transactions rely on COBOL code.

Got my boots on

I opened a profile for training in Salesforce technologies at Trailhead. Go, me!

Patch

Frank O'Brien explains, in exceptional detail, the hardware problem that vexed the Apollo 14 mission, and the dance of software fixes that kept the Moon landing on track. TIL about core rope memory.

777

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

Special guest appearance by a strip of paper tape.