Rust began as a hobby in 2006: Graydon Hoare, a Mozilla engineer, was annoyed by his building’s elevator failing because of C software. The name came from the fungus — “over-engineered for survival.” Mozilla sponsored it in 2009. The public 0.1 release came on January 20, 2012. Version 1.0 followed on May 15, 2015. … Read more
Anyone still saying “.NET Core 10” is not wrong about its history — the Core name ended at 3.1. Since version 5, the platform has simply been called .NET. Version 10 came out on November 11, 2025, is LTS until November 14, 2028, and in September 2026 the stable SDK is 10.0.400 … Read more
On October 24, 2015, GruPy-SP (with InteropMIX) heard Fabio Franco Costa discuss data science without slides promising “you will be a scientist in three months.” The argument fits in one sentence: data science is a method for thinking about problems, not a stack. The video is on the LinuxPro channel. Below is the talk’s message — … Read more
Go began on a Google whiteboard on September 21, 2007, because C++ took too long to compile. In November 2025, the language marked 16 years of open source development. In September 2026, the stable release is 1.27.1. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, the go you install on Linux — all of it descends … Read more
Gitea is the self-hosted forge in Go: Git, PR, issues, registry, and CI/CD in a single binary. Updated guide for Gitea 28.0.0 — the version that dropped the “1.” prefix —, with Docker Compose and MariaDB, 4.1 runner, tea CLI, and the upgrade roadmap from 1.27.
In April 2005, the Linux kernel lost its version control system. The proprietary BitKeeper had taught developers the distributed workflow — and Larry McVoy withdrew the license after Andrew Tridgell reverse-engineered the protocol. Linus Torvalds did not return to tarballs and patches. In about ten days, he wrote Git: tree snapshots, content-addressed … Read more
At 14, Aaron Hillel Swartz (Highland Park, Illinois, November 8, 1986) helped write RSS 1.0. At 26, on January 11, 2013, he died in his Brooklyn apartment while the US Department of Justice was prosecuting him for downloading academic articles. Between those two points: Creative Commons, Markdown, Reddit, Open … Read more
Visual Studio Code is the world’s most widely used editor, runs well on Linux, and is free. This guide shows how to install it so it stays up to date automatically, what to do right afterward, and what the difference is … Read more
A short cheatsheet: install, configure, clone, commit, push. No object theory. If you have never used Git, these commands cover 90% of cases. Install on Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives: sudo apt update sudo apt install git git –version In 2026 … Read more
Everyone starts with Hello, world! This post uses that three-line program as an excuse to install Rust properly on Ubuntu, understand what cargo does, and leave with a project that compiles — in about ten minutes. Why Rust, in two sentences Rust delivers C performance … Read more
