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Software and its Discontents, Part 2: An Explosion of Complexity | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

https://laughingmeme.org/2023/01/23/software-and-its-discontents-part-2-complexity.html

is nearly miraculous, computers are so damn fast and cheap these days, the quality of resources, much of it free, is off the charts, and the talent pool has exploded, and shows ev
This is part 2 in my “Software and its Discontents” series. This series is the product of my asking a bunch of folks about the current state of software engineering, the sense

Building software for yourself with Linus Lee (Changelog Interviews #455)

https://changelog.com/podcast/455

is so small, and the computers these days are just so fast that you can kind of store things in normal files. All of Monocle’s search data lives inside a big 50-megabyte JSON. It’
Today we're talking to Linus Lee about the practice of building software for yourself. Linus has several side projects we could talk about, but today's show is focused on L

Watch Room

http://linusakesson.net/scene/watchroom.php

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The Datassettes

http://linusakesson.net/hardware/datassettes/index.php

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Guitar Slinger Reconstructed

http://www.linusakesson.net/music/guitar-slinger/index.php

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The Impossible Bottle

http://linusakesson.net/games/the-impossible-bottle/index.php

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What Is The Cloud?

http://toastytech.com/about/thecloud.html

mainframes, and minicomputers. What clustering meant is that a single machine node in a cluster could go down, and other machine nodes would take over. End users would still be ab

Digital Equipment Corporation PDP 11/20 used in the FOSDIC system

http://www.retrotechnology.com/pdp11/FOSDIC.html

tapes to large-scale computers. [On the FOSDIC VI system, the scanning CRT and sensor were installed on an otherwise conventional microfilm reader. The film moved between the scan

Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share

https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

human communication, computers need a common set of conventions in order to share information. The history of networked computing is rich with stories about developing protocols.

Pimlical Awards

http://www.PimlicoSoftware.com/pimlicoawards.html

Desktop and Handheld Computers  Home > Awards  Pimlico -Awards won by Pimlical, DateBk and other Pimlico Calendar Products Pimlical/Desktop and Pimlical/Android  

Linux

https://www.billdietrich.me/Linux.html

to servers to supercomputers. Same is not true of Windows and Mac, although you do find Windows in ATMs and vending machines and other odd places. Miscellaneous Standards / projec
Linux operating system basics, parts, myths, and truths

Zeugma

http://linusakesson.net/software/zeugma/index.php

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