The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

The link What Every Programmer Should Know about Time was recently posted on DZone and was a highly popular link. It references the original Emil Mikulic post Time and What Programmers Should Know ...

Oh Internet nerds, I love you because I’m one of you. But even I had to look up this 1234567890 meme that’s been bouncing around. If you’ve been wished a “happy 1234567890” or other similarly obtuse ...

[danjovic] came up with a nifty entry for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge that lands somewhere between the categories of Ridiculous and Clockwork. It’s a clock that few hackers, if any, could read on ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...