Tour de Force
notes for my writing Tour de Force of the Operation of Computers
- Very interesting story of bringing forth a neglected cluster scheduler in waiting
- Teamwork versus problem solving
- Revisiting the concept of computing platforms and tech evolution
- Lessons learned from trying to search for integer math libraries
- Vacuum tubes can be built without rubber vacuum pumps
- Interesting article on "home-cooked app"
- Reflection on history of Microsoft and tech profession
- Averting the Y2K crisis at banks and curious prediction of smartphone
- What people are willing to pay for versus what they should want
- GitHub Archiving Program, it's here!
- How 3D printing pushes standards and changes our designs
- Where non-technical people get innovation
- Why aren't vintage televisions valued like vintage computers?
- Software that has changed the world
- Why do businesses fail to innovate?
- Humans are creatures of habit
- Review of Macintosh Classic software development tools, and also evolution of ROM/BIOS programming
- Documentation in new software projects is hard
- Interesting conversation with another engineer
- To those who are leaving the vintage computing community...
- Explaining libre software in a whole-world of users perspective
- Front panel control switch discussion, and TV Typewriter
- Raster video display over a serial connection
- String hashing algorithms and psychology
- Compile-time hashes
- Reflection on non-computerized technology
- The successor of literate programming
- The theory behind software test
- Exciting progress on the custom RISC-V project
- Usenet has its impact on today's Internet
- Reflections on future-proof software
- The few computing platforms that have changed our lives the most from a software developer's standpoint
- Solutions to the web UI computational efficiency problem
- Aspects of computing that haven't changed in a long time
- The 5 hour rule that makes entrepreneurs great
- Evolution of text editors for programmers and multiple cursors
- Zooniverse, Galaxy Zoo, Raspberry Pi, and unmotivated teens
- Null pointers
- As of 2018, better hardware for Linux than Windows
- Other cultures views on Internet privacy
- Changes in usage of PCs, laptops, smartphones, and tablets
- Facebook owns Instagram, and notes on the history of the Internet
- The new Windows, why I hate it, and reflections on single-board computers and home servers
- Parallel port discussion continued, and some analysis on the history of computer size, capabilities, and market share
- Computer architecture in a nutshell, again
- CGI/FastCGI and modern web programming
- Standard bit widths
- More websites on old terminals
- Interesting computer history questions: Monitor colors, Unix pipes
- When was OS/360 introduced?
- What exactly is the stack?
- Communication technology history and video
- Techno-scientific psychology
- Do people use GNOME 3 anymore?
- Categories of software/user interfaces in modern computing
- More info on compilers
- Introduction to Web programming, version 2.0
- Causes and solutions to technical chaos
- Applications pertinent to networked computer access
- Nothing will fully replace analog, risks of digital data storage, tech interface layers, small objects
- Distracting black lines, Rockettes discrimination, history of asylum
- Demolition, deconstruction, reusability, and similar thoughts
- Non-technical people's thought process on using computers
- Terminal margin questions answered
- Typewriters, mainframes, thoughts on our efforts to build computers