The Weekend Toy That Ended Up in Grand Theft Auto
One weekend in August 1996, Patrick Kerr wrote a 2D physics demo in GFA BASIC on an Atari ST. Thirty years later he rebuilt it for the browser, and the comment thread spent almost as long arguing about who wrote the page.
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Two Photographs and the Work They Forgot
Margaret Hamilton died at 90 and was remembered through a photograph of Apollo printouts that may not be her code. Rosalind Franklin is remembered through Photograph 51, which a new paper argues she understood all along.
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