Practically Efficient is a personal blog on technology, productivity tools, and design, including a history of mathematical typesetting.
HN commenters recommend its history of math typesetting, from boiling lead to Knuth, as a cohesive essay on the subject.
Enjoy some history of math typesetting http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html
Famously, Knuth lamented about the state of math typesetting at the time https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1979-01-02/S0273-0979-1979-14598-1/S0273-0979-1979-14598-1.pdf and in some ways TEX/Metafont was inspired by older examples from the early 1900s
Not quite the same concept, but I setup Little Snitch to work differently on my home/work networks versus tethered phone or untrusted wireless. I originally did this because I didn't want updates running while tethered at a coffee shop. This article got me started: http://www.practicallyefficient.com/home/2014/7/8/little-snitch
Google acquired Android before 2 years before iOS came about. I think it was more a case of "adjacent possible" developments [1] happening in parallel and learning from each other (as great artists are prone to do).
1. http://www.practicallyefficient.com/home/2010/09/28/the-adjacent-possible
Interesting to get experiences from people who lived in that era.
For those of you interested in the subject I remember enjoying reading this essay also covering the topic in a cohesive way: http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html