Naming things
Often described as “one of two hard problems in computer science”, this topic is about names I thought were interesting or notable.
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Why is Amazon Route 53 named that way?
Digging into the history of Route 53, DNS, and port number assignments.
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The “MCP” in Archivematica stands for “Master Control Program”
It’s nothing to do with generative AI.
The person who runs the Cambridge NTP servers has an excellent email address
The @ symbol was added to Morse code in 2004
It was added in May 2004, it’s the first new symbol since the Second World War, and the French have a cute name for it. The rest of Morse code has some surprising omissions.
Why the term “snak” keeps appearing in the Wikidata API
The acronym “woe” in the Flickr API stands for “Where On Earth”