The author reflects on their childhood computing experiences in the 1980s, including using IBM PC compatibles with floppy disks to run MS-DOS and LOGO at school, writing programs on paper due to limited computer time, and playing early games like Moon Bugs, Space Invaders, and Digger. These formative experiences, filled with wonder and exploration, remain vivid memories decades later.
Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award lecture demonstrates a self-replicating backdoor hidden in a C compiler, making trust in software fundamentally unverifiable from source code alone.
A 1969 article reports on growing public frustration with computer errors, highlighting incidents such as overbilling, mistaken dunning notices, and data mix-ups that sparked a "guerrilla war" of complaints and protests against computerized systems.
This repository traces the full history of TypeScript, from its early development at Microsoft to its evolution into a widely adopted typed superset of JavaScript. It covers key milestones, design decisions, and the language's impact on modern web development.
Argues U.S. computer science education overemphasizes theory while neglecting practical software engineering skills like design patterns, architecture, and testing, leaving graduates unprepared for building large, reliable real-world systems.
The Chip Letter explores the hidden inner workings of computers, tracing how semiconductors, microarchitecture, and software layers interact to perform digital tasks, revealing the complexity behind everyday computing.