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2026 13

  1. Gemini 3.8 OCR Costs
  2. Searching Community Memory Posts in 1987
  3. Evaluating OCR on the Community Memory Corpus
  4. Collisions, Combinatorics, and Markov Analysis: `The Balance` Game Design
  5. Number of bags of a given length with exactly d distinct elements
  6. Inventing ELIZA (Review)
  7. Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War (Review)
  8. TimesSquare Programming Puzzle - Part 1?
  9. Plain Text Accounting & Financial Reporting
  10. README: A Bookish History of Computing (Review)
  11. Fibonacci's Composed Fractions
  12. The Life and Work of George Boole (Review)
  13. OREGON (Trail): BASIC Game Design from the Teletype Era

2025 9

  1. Design of a Wild Shape/Polymorph Decision Aid
  2. Emergency Software: Software Development Lessons from EMISARI
  3. Interview with John Bridges (PCPaint, GRASP, GL Pro)
  4. The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers (Review)
  5. Improving Product Discovery of Tabletop RPG Maps (Preliminary Investigation)
  6. Connect Four Ply Dataset
  7. Routines of Substitution (Review)
  8. Ludii Wumpus World
  9. Investigating MacPaint's Source Code

2024 13

  1. Programming Lewis Carroll's *Memoria Technica*
  2. Using LLMs to Explain Historical Code: FLOW-MATIC Investigation
  3. Chatbots Decoded: Exploring AI (Review)
  4. Mathematical Analysis of the Royal Game of Ur
  5. A New Look
  6. Exposure to Art: a MTA Case Study
  7. PostScript® 1.0 - A Code Study
  8. ZLister Announcement
  9. Study of Historical Code
  10. Reserve Studies - A Policy Analysis
  11. How User Groups Made Software Reuse a Reality
  12. Method of Differences Add'l Applications
  13. Method of Differences

2023 9

  1. Konrad Zuse's Early Computers (Review)
  2. Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground (Review)
  3. Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social Worlds (Review)
  4. Godot4 HTML5 Export Development Server
  5. Drawing Down the Moon (Review)
  6. Range to Dice Notation
  7. Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union (Review)
  8. Availability, Fire Safety, and the IBM 704
  9. Surviving the Blizzard: An Application of Markov Chains

2022 14

  1. Slaying Dragon
  2. Simplifying Logic
  3. A Pain Scale for On-call?
  4. COBOL's Map Reduce
  5. Hero Code Examples for Programming Languages: Revisiting Trabb-Pardo_Knuth
  6. Rosetta Code
  7. PLATO and Approximate String Matching
  8. Quality of early 1970s approximate string matching algorithms
  9. Computing's Woodstock - Los Alamos 1976
  10. Dawn of Computer Music
  11. Fifty years of strings: Language design and the string datatype
  12. Format Specifiers
  13. Page Ranges
  14. Infinite Race

2021 13

  1. Update to Game of Ur Background
  2. Finding Sierpiński in the Oddest Places
  3. How to Solve Incidents - a research proposal
  4. Game Wizards
  5. Engagement Insider Threat
  6. Why I like lobste.rs
  7. Updated Rss Feed
  8. Royal Game of Ur (Background)
  9. Little Intuition
  10. Do Not Erase
  11. Interviewing Questions
  12. Patterns of Progress
  13. Prior Writings