I Read Every Major CS Paper of the Last 100 Years — So What?
Fireship walks through 10 landmark CS papers from Turing to GPT-3, showing how each idea set the stage for the next — and how the path to modern AI was anything but linear
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The Forgotten Developer Who Saved JavaScript: Douglas Crockford and the Story of JSON
Douglas Crockford didn't create JavaScript, but he may be the single most important reason it went from a mocked scripting language to the foundation of the modern web: he formalized JSON, created JSLint, and wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts — a book that showed developers JavaScript actually had a good side.