Schedule

What we publish, when, and how often. Updated on every deploy.

Each category publishes on a set day of the week, at its own rhythm — usually once a week. The table below shows each category's publishing day, how often a new post lands, and its most recent post.

Category	Cadence	Publishes	Latest post
Computing	Every week	Mondays	The transistor: a razor blade, some gold foil, and the death of the vacuum tube · 2026-07-13
Code Editors	Every week	Mondays	IntelliJ IDEA: the IDE that knew what you meant · 2026-07-13
Software Architecture	Every week	Mondays	Amazon's API mandate · 2026-07-13
Cars	Every week	Mondays	The Duryea Motor Wagon: the first American gasoline automobile · 2026-07-13
AI	Every week	Tuesdays	Minsky and Papert draw the line a perceptron cannot cross · 2026-07-14
Writing Systems	Every week	Tuesdays	Hangul, or the alphabet that came with a user manual · 2026-07-14
Programming Languages	Every week	Tuesdays	SQL, or the language that outlived one of its authors · 2026-07-14
Coffee	Every week	Tuesdays	The sergeant major and the five coffee plants · 2026-06-30
Shoes	Every week	Wednesdays	The Converse All-Star, or what forty years on the road built · 2026-07-15
Timepieces	Every week	Wednesdays	The wristwatch goes to war · 2026-07-15
Phones	Every week	Wednesdays	The G1, or what happens when you give a phone OS away for free · 2026-07-15
Sports	Every week	Wednesdays	The first Olympic footrace, and the cook who won it · 2026-07-15
Bridges	Every week	Thursdays	The Brooklyn Bridge, or how Washington Roebling directed the world's longest span from a sickroom · 2026-07-16
Locks & Keys	Every week	Thursdays	The transponder key, or how Ford put the lock inside the engine · 2026-07-16
Maps	Every week	Thursdays	Aerial photogrammetry: the camera that replaced the surveyor · 2026-07-16
Motorcycles	Every week	Thursdays	The Daimler Reitwagen · 2026-07-09
Money	Every week	Fridays	The Bank of England, or the twelve-day loan that never ended · 2026-07-17
Cryptography	Every week	Fridays	Turing's Bombe: the machine that solved by elimination · 2026-07-17
Video Games	Every week	Fridays	Myst and the CD-ROM that changed who played games · 2026-07-17

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