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[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

On July 4 2012 in San Diego, California, 7,000 fireworks accidentally went off all at the same time.

What was supposed to be a 17 min show, lasted just 30 seconds, thanks to a computer glitch

It is one of the greatest firework shows of all time

Happy 250th birthday, America 🇺🇸

[Pete Santilli 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🎙️ @petersantilli]

This might be the coolest thing I've ever seen!! This is what hope, pride, and American ingenuity looks like.
Happy 4th of July weekend, patriots!

[La Trinchera CHILE® @LatrincheraCL]

Buque Escuela Esmeralda de la @Armada_Chile dice presente en la celebración de los 250 años de la independencia de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica.

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

On July 4th every year, the Boston Pops Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” with real cannons, as the composer did in 1882.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The Tall Ships parade in NY Harbor to celebrate America’s 250th!!

[la exocet 🚀 @pampaIIIpelis]

La fragata Libertad anoche, en la tormenta que azoto New York .
Habia llegado el dia anterior junto a otros buques miticos , como la Vepucci Italiana para participar del #Sail2026Parade

[🅶🅾🆁🅺 @Raclure03]

Quelle idée géniale ❤️

[THIERRY D "ardéchois et français" @ThierryTout]

🇫🇷🖌️
La française Florence Aseult mérite d'être mise en avant pour son immense talent dans l'enluminure.
Voici "La Passion du Christ", peinte sur du parchemin de chèvre, selon des techniques médiévales traditionnelles, avec notamment de l'or 23 carats.🤩
(🎥aseultenluminure/IG)

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

🎨🖌️🖼️
Hidden in a Parisian courtyard is La Maison du Pastel, the world's oldest pastel maker.

With a 300-year-old legacy of making pastels by hand, the shop served clients like Edgar Degas.
@MaisonPastelRP

[Hornby @hornby]

Last week we were honoured to be at one of the most legendary sites in railway history: Wabtec's Doncaster Works, as the site is scheduled to close at the end of this year.

Do you have a special memory of Doncaster Works? Let us know below!

#Hornby

[Seeds of the Soul @softhesoul136]

Then you realize it's a 12-string guitar... 🤯 | Glen Campbell
This isn't just great guitar—it's legendary
Nobody can make a 12-string guitar sing like Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell's 'William Tell Overture' is truly explosive 🔥

[Thenewarea51 @thenewarea51]

BBC 4 has officially ended its last Long Wave radio broadcast on 198 kHz at 0000 GMT tonight. They ended with an aviation and maritime weather report and one final sign off. The end of an era! 🇬🇧📻

[THE BOLD VOICE @TheBoldVoice25]

At the Oak Street railroad crossing in Pittston, the Reading and Northern Railroad and the Union Pacific Big Boy power through side by side—an impressive meeting of modern railroading and steam-era legend.

[Casa de S.M. el Rey @CasaReal]

Los Reyes y el Papa León XIV han presenciado el espectáculo de luces proyectado en el exterior de la Basílica de la Sagrada Familia tras la bendición de la Torre de Jesucristo.

➡️https://t.co/6k3JzwbwyF

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Ross @ross64x]

A Gaudí siempre le preguntaban cuando acabarían lss obras, y el siempre respondía que su cliente no tiene prisa.

Para Antoni Gaudí, que murió tal día como hoy, hace 100 años, ingresado en un hospicio porque lo tomaron por un mendigo tras ser atropellado por un tranvía, habría sido un sueño saber que el Papa, los Reyes de España, el presidente del Gobierno y de la Generalitat, el alcalde de Barcelona y una larga lista de autoridades estarían, un siglo después, rindiéndole homenaje y mirando al cielo para ver cómo se iluminaba la torre de la iglesia más alta del mundo.

La epopeya de la Sagrada Familia, 144 años en construcción, y que aún no ha acabado, ha tenido uno de sus días para la historia con la solemne ceremonia religiosa que ha culminado con la bendición del Papa a la Torre de Jesucristo.

Otro momento que hará que la imagen de Barcelona dé la vuelta mundo, con 9.000 personas dentro del templo y 130.000 en el exterior

Y lo de los drones eso ya no se como expresarlo, mejor verlo.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

The choir in the Sagrada Família is putting on the performance of a lifetime.

The vocals perfectly complement the stunning visuals of Gaudí’s cathedral!

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

Veiem per primera vegada la torre de Jesucrist il·luminada!
L'espectacle de llum iniciat des de la base fins a la il·luminació de la creu ha culminat amb una composició de llums guiats per drons, que han dibuixat la figura Gaudí i la frase «primer l'amor, després la tècnica».

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Dennis Ritchie invented C in 1972, co-built Unix in 1969, and his code is running inside every device you are reading this on right now and the colleague who announced his death had to do it through a Google+ post because no journalist thought to check.

He worked at Bell Labs in New Jersey for 44 years. He never gave a keynote. He never ran a company. He never appeared on a magazine cover. He just wrote code that became the invisible foundation everything else is built on.

Here is what he actually built, and why it matters more than almost anything that happened in tech.

In 1969, Bell Labs had just walked away from one of the most ambitious computing projects in history. The Multics project, a joint effort between MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, had collapsed under its own weight. Too complex. Too expensive. Too slow. Bell Labs pulled out.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie refused to let the ideas die.

Working in a small office in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Thompson wrote the first version of Unix in three weeks during the summer of 1969. One week for the file system. One week for the process management. One week for the command shell. Ritchie was working alongside him, and when the system needed a language that could express what they were building, he built one.

In 1972 he completed C.

C was not just another programming language. It was a different philosophy about what a programming language should be. Before C, most systems code was written in assembly, which meant every program was tied to the specific hardware it ran on. You could not move code between machines. You rewrote it from scratch every time.

C changed that. It sat close enough to the hardware to be fast, but abstract enough to run on anything. When Thompson rewrote the Unix kernel in C in 1973, it became the first operating system that could be picked up and moved to a completely different machine without starting over. Portability was a new idea. Ritchie made it real.

The branching that followed is almost impossible to overstate.

Unix spread from Bell Labs to universities. At Berkeley, it became BSD. BSD became the foundation of macOS and iOS. Unix influenced Linus Torvalds, who built Linux in 1991. Linux now runs every Android phone, every major web server, every supercomputer on the Top500 list, and the overwhelming majority of cloud infrastructure at AWS, Google, and Microsoft.

C became the parent language of C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Objective-C. Rob Pike, who worked across the hall from Ritchie at Bell Labs for 20 years, said it plainly: "The browsers are written in C. The Unix kernel that the entire internet runs on is written in C. Web servers are written in C, and if they're not, they're written in Java or C++, which are C derivatives, or Python or Ruby, which are implemented in C."

Ritchie won the Turing Award in 1983. He won the National Medal of Technology in 1998, presented by President Clinton. He was head of System Software Research at Bell Labs for decades.

He answered emails from strangers with technical questions until the end of his life. His home address stayed listed in the phone book. His colleague Brian Kernighan, who co-authored the definitive C textbook with him, said Ritchie was a private person who did no self-salesmanship. That was not false modesty. It was just who he was.

He died on October 12, 2011, at his home in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. He was 70. He had been ill for some time. The world did not notice until Rob Pike posted a quiet announcement on Google+, and the news spread through the programming community in hushed tones.

No front pages. No tributes from heads of state. No candlelight vigils outside corporate campuses.

The device you are reading this on runs code that traces directly back to what he built. So does the server that delivered it to you. So does the browser or app you opened to get here.

Most people will never know his name.

The ones who built everything you use every day do.