In 1982, a student walks out of the University of Amsterdam with a degree in math and computer science. Nothing about that day suggests he's about to build one of the most used programming languages on Earth. He takes a job at CWI, a research institute across town. The task: help build a language called ABC, designed to make programming easier to learn. Clean syntax. Simple to teach. ABC should have taken off. It didn't. No way to extend it. No way to plug in new tools or con

On 12 September 1940, in a France that had signed an armistice three months earlier, four teenagers from Montignac lowered themselves into a hole in the ground. Marcel Ravidat had found the opening four days before and gone back for help: Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel, Simon Coencas. What they dropped into was Lascaux. Horses, aurochs, stags, a whole ceiling of them, and nobody had looked at that ceiling since the last ice age. Lascaux Cave Paintings Sixteen years later, almo

Qlik just added automation-management tools to the Qlik MCP Server, plus open-source Agentic Skills that teach coding agents to use them right. In the new Data Voyagers episode, I put Claude Code to work building, then editing, a Qlik Automation that reloads every Table Recipe in a Shared Space. Full walkthrough, real Qlik Cloud tenant, tested at every step. If you manage automations by hand today, it's worth seeing what agentic tooling actually looks like up close.