In 2003, Mark Klein started noticing strange things about a room in his building. Room 641A. Episode 13 of Found in the Machine about the infrastructure we look past, government mass surveillance, and why the machine Mark discovered never actually turned off. foundinthemachine.com/episodes/13-...

Two competitors built a shared language for their synths in 1983 and published it in the open. A few years later, a teenager in Detroit used it to create what's widely seen as the first techno track. The newest episode of Found in the Machine is out now foundinthemachine.com/episodes/12-...

📖 Talk Spotlight: Ever wonder why README files exist? @dbouquin.bsky.social traces their surprisingly human history from 1970s punch cards to today's code culture. Why a file called "Read Me" matters more than you think 🐰 #SciPy2026 🔗 scipy2026.scipy.org

In 24 hours I'll be hosting #NumericallySpeakingLIVE and talking about why your Python is so slow with @circuitswan.bsky.social. We'll write some terrible code and use profiling tools to figure out where it falls apart. Friday, June 12th 11a PT / 1p CT / 7p GMT www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwU1...

In 1916, a chemist dipped his pen into molten tin and accidentally invented the process that grows nearly every silicon wafer on Earth. He never knew what he had done. New episode of Found in the Machine is out now. 🎙️ foundinthemachine.com/episodes/11-working-in-the-dark-secrets-silicon-and-light

There was a time when the Internet came in the mail. This newest episode of Found in the Machine is about the woman behind AOLs carpet bombing strategy and what happened next 🎙️ foundinthemachine.com/episodes/10-...

I launched a companion newsletter to Found in the Machine. Notes from the Machine: scripts, cut content, sources, and a note from me with each episode. For listeners who want to go further than the audio. notes.foundinthemachine.com

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

Explore the hidden stories behind the code in Found in the Machine: Forgotten Tech History. This podcast uncovers the unsung heroes and pivotal moments that shaped our digital world, perfect for the curious minds who love to unravel mysteries.

Found in the Machine has a bookshop now! The Computing History list featuring the hidden labor, erased pioneers, and cultural history behind the field. Supports indie bookstores and the podcast (affiliate). 🌟 bookshop.org/shop/foundinthemachine

My 4yo son asked me I there are holiday songs that aren’t about Christmas. I said of course. He asked if I could sing one so I panicked and sang him This is Halloween from Nightmare Before Christmas. If you have a favorite non-Christmas holiday song I’d love to know it for future reference 🎃

The Apollo computer's memory had to be woven. Wire by wire, by women whose names never made it into NASA's reports. It also needed integrated circuits, built by Navajo women with "innate" rug weaving skills. New episode of Found in the Machine about the weavers: foundinthemachine.com/episodes/9-t...

My podcast has a new name. Lore in the Machine is now Found in the Machine. Same show, same stories about hidden histories in computing. Better name. foundinthemachine.com New episode drops tomorrow

Newest episode of Lore in the Machine is about the CAPTCHA. But it's really about what happens when the Turing Test flips. And what we were unknowingly building while we squinted at blurry letters. loreinthemachine.com/episodes/8-i... #techhistory #internethistory #podcast

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

NVIDIA's most powerful AI chip is named after a Cold War mathematician most people have never heard of. His story is episode 7 of Lore in the Machine: loreinthemachine.com/episodes/7-t... #HistoryOfAI #DavidBlackwell #NVIDIA #MachineLearning

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Four times a year, strangers fly to a secure facility, enter a metal cage inside a signal-proof room, and turn keys in unison to keep the internet secure. New episode of Lore in the Machine 🎧 loreinthemachine.com/episodes/6-a-ritual-to-secure-the-internet #infosec #DNSSEC #cybersecurity #techhistory

The newest episode of Lore in the Machine is live! In 2008, one guy quietly saved the Internet. No one noticed. Listen and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts 🔊🎧 loreinthemachine.com/episodes/5-p... #cybersecurity #techhistory #didyouknow #dns

Lore in the Machine is live! Four episodes are up. Ep1 asks why programmers say 'foo'. The answer involves a very strange comic strip from the 1930s, a WWII radar operator, and more model trains than you'd expect. New episodes every other week loreinthemachine.com #computing #history #techhistory

Devs type "foo" but few know it comes from a 1930s comic strip. I've been collecting stories like this for ages without knowing what to do with them. So I made a show. Lore in the Machine tells the strange stories behind the tools we use every day. Trailer is up. Hope you enjoy: loreinthemachine.com

I’m at Anaconda’s company kickoff in Lisbon and @ddesanto.bsky.social is talking about Stephen King and Drag Race and open source and I know I picked the right company to work for 💚 @anacondainc.bsky.social

I recently made a few YouTube shorts explaining what different parts of LLM file names mean, so if you've ever wondered what something like q4_0_L or 8B means, these are for you! #learnAI #genAI www.youtube.com/shorts/WzCom...

I recently wrote a deep dive exploring some of the reasons why security teams get blindsided by vulnerabilities in Python packages. If you're dealing with alert fatigue or wondering why your team spends hours validating false positives this one's worth your time. www.anaconda.com/blog/python-...

What's a parameter? I'm glad you asked! LLM file names are weird and long but now they're less cryptic www.youtube.com/shorts/WzCom...

Hope you're all #conda champions too 🐍🫠 #Python

Got asked to present a 1 hr session yesterday with a few hrs notice at #PyData VT! Rough drafted this last week for a blog + video series but it was trial by fire instead github.com/dbouquin/mcp... Can't figure out what to do with my hands but here's a tutorial on #MCP basics with #conda + #Claude.