Imagine yourself in 1985, whether you were alive at the time or not. You know nothing about computers, but somehow find yourself at a DOS or UNIX command prompt, staring at cryptic characters in an oddly angular font, glowing white against the flat, featureless black of the screen. Let’s imagine that you are used to […]
Category: Computing
A Few Thoughts on the New Programming
I remember one of the first programs I wrote, when everything about programming, the web, and the world of computing was new to me, which was a simple implementation of Conway’s Game of Life using an HTML table for the grid. Nothing fancy, nothing that hasn’t been done a million times before, just a fun […]
A Lisp Interlude
I came across the programming language, or family of languages, called Lisp early in my programming journey, when I first realized that computing technology was an area I wanted to explore, but without having much direction other then my own curiosity and what came up in web searches. In one of these searches I discovered […]
Book Review: Writing With a Word Processor by William Zinsser
Author William Zinsser is known for his book on writing well, On Writing Well, still a popular work on the subject almost half a century after its original publication. Less well known but still worth a read is his Writing to Learn. This is another book of writing advice, but in this case he is […]
On Mechanical Keyboards
A new year is coming, time to clean some things up, take some things out to the trash, and of course, get a bunch of new stuff. For me this year, that meant getting a Mac Mini to replace my 2014 Macbook Pro. The Mini is a small, sleek, silver technological lozenge that doesn’t take […]