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Tim Bray 🇨🇦@timbray@cosocial.ca

Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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Location: Vancouver  🍁
Blog: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
Favorite sushi: Negitoro
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Joined: 2026-09-11 12:08:47
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦@timbray@cosocial.ca (2026-10-16 01:25:09)
Today is FORTRAN’s 70th birthday; its reference manual “appeared in a glossy cover, handsomely printed, with the date October 15, 1956.” https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/FORTRAN/paper/p25-backus.pdf

(The actual software wasn’t released till the following year)

No longer fashionable but still, one of computer programming’s biggest success stories. I tip my hat.

Tim Bray 🇨🇦@timbray@cosocial.ca (2026-09-11 10:43:51)
”Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?” by Armin Ronacher: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/

Fascinating reportage from the frontier-model coalface; especially since Armin has been in some respects a #genai true believer.