🕯️ Margaret Hamilton, pionnière de l'informatique surtout connue pour son travail au MIT où elle a dirigé le développement du logiciel de vol pour les missions Apollo vers la Lune, est décédée à 90 ans le 30 septembre. 1/2

« Ainsi commençait pour Ulysse, Thémis, Télémaque et Nono la plus fantastique des odyssées dans des univers inconnus, contrôlés par des dieux hostiles, perdus dans l'étrange cosmos de l'Olympe. » 🔥 🎂 samedi 3 octobre 1981, première diffusion du mythique Ulysse 31 sur FR3

10 years in the making — we poured all our love into those pixels. Theropods is out now! store.steampowered.com/app/1…

Born 17 Aug 1936: Margaret Hamilton 👩‍💻🚀 She coined 'software engineering' & wrote Apollo 11 code that landed us on the Moon! Women code history. @NASA @MIT #WomenInSTEM #MargaretHamilton #Apollo11 #STEM

A Z80 processor from 1976 computing 7*27. Slowed down 800000 times. Credit to the Visual6502 project for the circuit data. #retrocomputing #computerhistory #reverseengineering #creativecoding

Avant d'empiler du JS et de pleurer sur des packages npm de 3 Go, on gérait la mémoire à coups de POKE et de GOTO. Cet été, on oublie ChatGPT et on revient aux vrais grimoires magiques du MO5 et TO7 ! 🧙‍♂️📼 #RetroComputing #BASIC #Thomson #80sGeek #GOTO10

Ever done hard time peeling potatoes in a cartoon prison? Stir Crazy featuring BoBo (1988) on the Commodore 64 was a French/Belgian comic license. The game is based on the humorous “Bobo” comic series, created by Belgian artist Paul Deliège and often featured in Spirou magazine. It follows the misadventures of a bumbling prisoner named Bobo, sentenced for something minor—like stealing a bicycle. Do you remember playing Stir Crazy?

The third best-selling computer platform in history, after Windows PCs and the Mac, began as a recruiting tool for Cambridge University's computer science department. It's the size of a credit card, has no case, and costs less than a pair of shoes. Eben Upton built Raspberry Pi in 2012 to get more applicants into Cambridge's computer science course, then the easiest to get into. He thought kids needed the real thing: a general purpose programmable computer (like his childhood BBC Micro) to fall in love with the unbounded creativity of coding. He was more right than he could have imagined. On launch day in 2012, he sold 100,000 computers. A million shipped before Raspberry Pi hired an employee. Computer science is now the hardest course to get into at Cambridge, and Raspberry Pi is a $1.5 billion public company that has sold over 73 million units. 80% of its revenue comes from industry. Every digital display at Heathrow runs on a Pi. Schindler uses them in its elevators. The International Space Station has carried one in orbit since 2015. You'll also find the tiny computers wherever the next thing is. Bitcoin mining farms ran on them. So did the first wave of hobbyist drones. Pis now run LLMs. In five years, Upton thinks Claude Sonnet-class intelligence will fit in your pocket. Most tech conversation is about the frontier: the newest chips, the biggest models, trillion-dollar training runs. Raspberry Pi is a case study in the opposite. It shows what cheap, general-purpose, and performant-enough can achieve. It's also a rare British hardware success story, designed in Cambridge, manufactured with Sony in Wales, and reshored from China a decade before the rest of the industry caught on. Read @TerranMott's interview with Upton below. It comes with extraordinary photos of Pis baking in the Welsh factory, and covers the journey of automation, teaching children to program in the era of agents, and putting foundation models in your pocket.