#softwarehistory

Open source won the technical argument. The people keeping critical infrastructure running are often unpaid volunteers, a cost nobody budgeted for.

These days, AI Agents, MCP servers, tool calling, memory systems, and autonomous workflows are among...

You can open a tab right now and read the flight code that landed on the moon. It has been on GitHub since 2016. A former NASA intern named Chris Garry uploaded the files for the lunar module…