Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Abend: the loop you did not write
An interactive history of RPG programming, punched cards, compiler diagnostics, packed decimal fields, and the errors that could cost a day.
Why it surfacedAbend turns obscure IBM-era programming mechanics into a sequence of hands-on explanations: step through the fifteen-item loop RPG generated around your code, shift a field by one column, or watch malformed packed data become a machine-level failure. Its copy makes a vanished workflow tangible—one submission went out, and the listing came back tomorrow.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.