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TIL: 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.
What is psephology?
It’s the scientific study of elections and voting, and it comes from the Greek word for “pebble”, because pebbles were used for voting in ancient Greece.
Illustrating the cipher wheels of a Lorenz machine
Some old code I wrote to draw cam-accurate illustrations of cipher wheels.
Why do programming languages have a main() function?
Lots of programming languages have a function called main() where code starts executing. Where does this come from?
The Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Feeling the weight of death in a former concentration camp.
My favourite WITCH story
As the WITCH computer celebrates five years since its reboot at TNMoC, a fun story of how it was left to run at Christmas.