Stopped by a game store. Cyberpunk I used a completed discount punchcard…
January 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Stopped by a game store. Cyberpunk I used a completed discount punchcard…
Watching an IBM employee in the 1930s post "Making all these punchcard machines for those death camps SUUUCKS but it's all worth it for the middle class lifestyle it's provided me"
January 14, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Watching an IBM employee in the 1930s post "Making all these punchcard machines for those death camps SUUUCKS but it's all worth it for the middle class lifestyle it's provided me"
This is probably my favorite slide across all my classes. Just trying to put in perspective how much our ability to store massive amounts of data has changed in my lifetime.
It is truly staggering.
It is truly staggering.
January 13, 2026 at 9:31 PM
This is probably my favorite slide across all my classes. Just trying to put in perspective how much our ability to store massive amounts of data has changed in my lifetime.
It is truly staggering.
It is truly staggering.
So they reinvented the timeclock, right? The old-time machine where workers inserted a punchcard when they came into the factory/office? Original!
January 11, 2026 at 1:14 PM
So they reinvented the timeclock, right? The old-time machine where workers inserted a punchcard when they came into the factory/office? Original!
Punchcard story - about 10 years ago I was in north Minneapolis at a client site that had been formerly been occupied by the long-defunct Control Data corporation. In the main network room there were shelves containing NOS/VE manuals and stacks of cards.
Hand-punched cards.
Before the IBM 029
Before the IBM 029
January 10, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Punchcard story - about 10 years ago I was in north Minneapolis at a client site that had been formerly been occupied by the long-defunct Control Data corporation. In the main network room there were shelves containing NOS/VE manuals and stacks of cards.
Valid. I do wish (and have for years) that there was some sort of premium content punchcard one could purchase to read paywalled articles. I have several subscriptions to news sources both local and national, but it's just not feasible to subscribe to them all.
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Valid. I do wish (and have for years) that there was some sort of premium content punchcard one could purchase to read paywalled articles. I have several subscriptions to news sources both local and national, but it's just not feasible to subscribe to them all.
How about a punchcard for every war you stop?
With the fifth one, you get a free donut with your latte
With the fifth one, you get a free donut with your latte
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
How about a punchcard for every war you stop?
With the fifth one, you get a free donut with your latte
With the fifth one, you get a free donut with your latte
If I see it just TWO more times, I fill my punchcard and get a free coffee.
January 9, 2026 at 10:15 PM
If I see it just TWO more times, I fill my punchcard and get a free coffee.
Pretty sure I could fill a whole punchcard just from the times I've heard: "You were a *very* close second!"
January 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Pretty sure I could fill a whole punchcard just from the times I've heard: "You were a *very* close second!"
punchcard computing would be a toughie
but tbf it was a pain in the ass in the 80s too
but tbf it was a pain in the ass in the 80s too
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
punchcard computing would be a toughie
but tbf it was a pain in the ass in the 80s too
but tbf it was a pain in the ass in the 80s too
60 years of this horseshit
January 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
60 years of this horseshit
Work doodles from today, I guess I felt like returning to my roots lol.
#art #fanart #charadreemurr #friskdreemurr #charisk #sans
#art #fanart #charadreemurr #friskdreemurr #charisk #sans
January 7, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Work doodles from today, I guess I felt like returning to my roots lol.
#art #fanart #charadreemurr #friskdreemurr #charisk #sans
#art #fanart #charadreemurr #friskdreemurr #charisk #sans
me: Why wasn't this study ever published - we've got data, we've got documentation?
the documentation:
the documentation:
January 6, 2026 at 2:58 PM
me: Why wasn't this study ever published - we've got data, we've got documentation?
the documentation:
the documentation:
Saw the #punchcard trend going around the first of the year and decided to try it for myself. Might make more later but these were the first ones I could think of (didn’t do one for writing because I already have the #bingocard for those #goals). What would you put on yours? 📚🖤
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Saw the #punchcard trend going around the first of the year and decided to try it for myself. Might make more later but these were the first ones I could think of (didn’t do one for writing because I already have the #bingocard for those #goals). What would you put on yours? 📚🖤
Even in the punchcard and batch era, coding was not the main bottleneck with software delivery.
You may have read 1st version of this already - I've significantly updated/re-written, going back to the 1940s.
Full timeline below 👇
blog.robbowley.net/2026/01/05/c...
You may have read 1st version of this already - I've significantly updated/re-written, going back to the 1940s.
Full timeline below 👇
blog.robbowley.net/2026/01/05/c...
Coding has never been the bottleneck | Rob Bowley
blog.robbowley.net
January 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Even in the punchcard and batch era, coding was not the main bottleneck with software delivery.
You may have read 1st version of this already - I've significantly updated/re-written, going back to the 1940s.
Full timeline below 👇
blog.robbowley.net/2026/01/05/c...
You may have read 1st version of this already - I've significantly updated/re-written, going back to the 1940s.
Full timeline below 👇
blog.robbowley.net/2026/01/05/c...
And omg I just read your s*ubstack.com on ❣️UNIX & it brought back so many memories of chatting w/my Grumpy Olds Spousal Unit (GOSU) as we took a 'puter class together in 1975. No my punchcard box never exploded walking aX campus.😁His did. We were in Mech Engineering undergrad. He stayed. I didn't.
January 6, 2026 at 7:07 AM
And omg I just read your s*ubstack.com on ❣️UNIX & it brought back so many memories of chatting w/my Grumpy Olds Spousal Unit (GOSU) as we took a 'puter class together in 1975. No my punchcard box never exploded walking aX campus.😁His did. We were in Mech Engineering undergrad. He stayed. I didn't.
Example 100,000 how there are just completely different rules and expectations for the two parties. We did it. Everyone with a punchcard gets a free sandwich.
If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.
January 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Example 100,000 how there are just completely different rules and expectations for the two parties. We did it. Everyone with a punchcard gets a free sandwich.
*waves punchcard triumphantly*
ONE MORE INVASION AND THEY'LL BRING BACK RED VELVET!!
ONE MORE INVASION AND THEY'LL BRING BACK RED VELVET!!
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
*waves punchcard triumphantly*
ONE MORE INVASION AND THEY'LL BRING BACK RED VELVET!!
ONE MORE INVASION AND THEY'LL BRING BACK RED VELVET!!
Cannonball Run: it’s supposed to be a time trial, based on the times punched onto cards at the start and end of the race. The vehicles start minutes apart.
So why does it end with a first-across the line footrace? JJ had ample time to pick up the punchcard victor dropped and punch it himself!
So why does it end with a first-across the line footrace? JJ had ample time to pick up the punchcard victor dropped and punch it himself!
January 4, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Cannonball Run: it’s supposed to be a time trial, based on the times punched onto cards at the start and end of the race. The vehicles start minutes apart.
So why does it end with a first-across the line footrace? JJ had ample time to pick up the punchcard victor dropped and punch it himself!
So why does it end with a first-across the line footrace? JJ had ample time to pick up the punchcard victor dropped and punch it himself!
One more title on his punchcard, and he gets a free sandwich
January 4, 2026 at 4:13 PM
One more title on his punchcard, and he gets a free sandwich
The punchcard trend people are doing is so cute and I'd like to try it but the problem is I wouldn't be able to reward myself for completing them because I never deprive myself of anything so what is the point man
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 PM
The punchcard trend people are doing is so cute and I'd like to try it but the problem is I wouldn't be able to reward myself for completing them because I never deprive myself of anything so what is the point man
Trump must think the Nobel Peace Prize is like a McDonald’s Cheeseburger punchcard where it gets punched every time he does some illegal and barbaric 💩 and then he gets a free Peace Prize.
January 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Trump must think the Nobel Peace Prize is like a McDonald’s Cheeseburger punchcard where it gets punched every time he does some illegal and barbaric 💩 and then he gets a free Peace Prize.
why aren’t my commits showing up as activity and in the punchcard of my @tangled.org profiles? do i need to configure something?
January 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
why aren’t my commits showing up as activity and in the punchcard of my @tangled.org profiles? do i need to configure something?