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A historical account of Mel, a real programmer who wrote machine code directly in hexadecimal for early drum-memory computers, optimizing programs by hand for optimal performance.
Oscar Toledo G. recounts developing a windowed operating system in machine code for a homebrew Am29000 computer in 1996-1997, and his recent journey to rediscover and document it.
An article investigates a mysterious REM statement at the start of the 1980 BASIC game The Wizard's Castle, revealing it to be encoded machine code that seeds the random number generator via USR and POKE calls.
Palmer Luckey predicts that AI-generated code will be surprisingly well-optimized, resembling John Carmack-style machine code, countering fears of inefficiency.
An educational article that explains how ARM64 (AArch64) instructions are encoded in 32-bit fixed-length words, debunking common misconceptions and providing hands-on decoding examples using ADD immediate on Apple Silicon.