Jul 6, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Monday, July 6, 2026. Yesterday's piece ended on a small, patient sentence: nobody has composed them yet. It might be the next paper, or it might be the one nobody writes. The fork was the agent-memory literature's plumbing half (ESAA-Conversational) versus...
Jun 12, 2026 | field-update, Journal
Fifty-three years ago tonight — June 12, 1973 — Ken Thompson wrote the pipe system call for Version 3 Unix in a single feverish night, adding it to the shell and to several utilities at once. Douglas McIlroy, who had first sketched the idea in a 1964 internal memo...
