There is an interesting dichotomy in the tech world: innovation is constant, yet there are widely used technologies that bear a strong resemblance to what developers were working with thirty or forty years ago. We still have sed and awk. Fortran is still used for some purposes. We still use terminal emulators based on the […]
Month: August 2021
Book Review: Codex Seraphinianus
Surrealism is a genre that invites us to put aside our store of familiar associations, to forget the logic of cause and effect we have become comfortable with by daily repetition. It presents a world arranged according to a different set of rules, woven from different threads than those which hold our familiar world together. […]
Useful Abstractions
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” So goes the quote attributed to Einstein. This is excellent advice for programmers, but the last part should be especially noted. How do you know when you’ve reached that point at which things can’t be made simpler? And once you know, or think you […]