About Notes from the Machine

Every line of code has a story. Most of us just never hear it.

Notes from the Machine is the companion newsletter to Found in the Machine, a narrative podcast about the forgotten history of computing, software, and the internet. Each issue arrives with a new episode and goes further than the audio can.

The show is for the kind of person who pulls on threads. So is this.

Each issue arrives with a new episode, every other week. You'll find four things inside:

• The Story. A readable version of the episode script. The same story, written to be read rather than heard.
• Left on the Cutting Room Floor. Something that didn't make it into the episode. A source I couldn't fit. A detail that complicated the narrative. A thread I pulled that went somewhere interesting but not quite far enough.
• Sources. Actual materials I used, with enough context to know where to start if you want to go further. Research is most useful when you can follow it somewhere.
• From the Field. A short note from me. What I'm working on. A question the episode left me with. Whatever is sitting at the edge of the next story.

Subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen.

You can learn more about the show and the host on the Found in the Machine website.