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Early “Computer Kit” Really Just A Fancy Calculator
Early “Computer Kit” Really Just A Fancy Calculator
We’re big fans of calculators, computers and vintage magazines, so when we see something at the intersection of all three we always take a look. Back in 1966, Electronics Illustrated included…
·hackaday.com·
Early “Computer Kit” Really Just A Fancy Calculator
Do IDEs Make You Stupid?
Do IDEs Make You Stupid?
I like my integrated development environment. But sometimes my IDE does things for me, and I have no idea how it’s doing them. That's a problem.
·thenewstack.io·
Do IDEs Make You Stupid?
Let it crash (the right way…)
Let it crash (the right way…)
I do a lot of useless stuff on the interwebz; Like facebooking, twittering, blogging, redditing etc… but once in a while do some really useful stuff as well E.g. trapexit.org, stackoverflow.c…
·mazenharake.wordpress.com·
Let it crash (the right way…)
Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
Last week, I stumbled on a marvelous book: “Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think” by Edmund Callis Berkeley. What’s really fun about it is the way it sounds like it could be written just this year…
·hackaday.com·
Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
Building SimCity (MIT Press)
Building SimCity (MIT Press)
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more.
·i-programmer.info·
Building SimCity (MIT Press)
Godspeed
Godspeed
Godspeed is a todo manager built for speed. 100% keyboard driven, every interaction in 50ms.
·godspeedapp.com·
Godspeed
ARM Vs. Qualcomm: A Messy Fight That Benefits Consumers
ARM Vs. Qualcomm: A Messy Fight That Benefits Consumers
The emergence of a conflict between Qualcomm and Arm over desktop chip dominance feels like a revival of one of the PC industry’s most important conflicts.
·tedium.co·
ARM Vs. Qualcomm: A Messy Fight That Benefits Consumers
Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet
Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet
How the Brannock Device, a measuring tool you’ve definitely seen but don’t know the name of, made it a lot easier to figure out our shoe size.
·tedium.co·
Brannock Device History: A Machine That Measures Feet
How To Not Make Things Worse | Devbeat Software Blog
How To Not Make Things Worse | Devbeat Software Blog
Balancing speed, simplicity, and future-proofing in feature development is a subtle art. Let's take a look at some ways to approach this!
·devbeat.co.uk·
How To Not Make Things Worse | Devbeat Software Blog
Programming Is Mostly Thinking
Programming Is Mostly Thinking
Pretend you have a really great programming day.   You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...
·agileotter.blogspot.com·
Programming Is Mostly Thinking
Wherein wrapping text remains the hardest problem in computer science.
Wherein wrapping text remains the hardest problem in computer science.
I thought I'd share one of the most maniacal piles of JavaScript that I have ever written. It is monstrously awful, and does something useful and beautiful. It is a love-hate relationship without the love. I speak of course of the DNA Lounge Sign Generator. This is the page that we use at the club for printing signs in our signature style: drink special signs, reserved table signs, window pie
·jwz.org·
Wherein wrapping text remains the hardest problem in computer science.
Weeknotes 291 - the valuable friction of context
Weeknotes 291 - the valuable friction of context
Showing sources is not enough; design encounters. Some thoughts. And the latest notions from the news, a paper on AI and democracy, and more.
·target-is-new.ghost.io·
Weeknotes 291 - the valuable friction of context
How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
Recently I received an AI-written email from a friend. I'm trying to understand why I had the reaction to it that I did.
·mrgan.com·
How it feels to get an AI email from a friend
Neven Mrgan
Neven Mrgan
Designer, game maker, and writer in Portland, OR. One of the good ones.
·mrgan.com·
Neven Mrgan
THAT FEATURE IS SO COOL! I’ll never use it, though.
THAT FEATURE IS SO COOL! I’ll never use it, though.
Daryl Baxter writing for iMore: iPadOS 18 Looks Great, but It Still Doesn't Fix the iPad's Biggest Problem I want to be clear — the features that Calculator brings to the iPad, as well as the Math Notes that you can use with Apple Pencil and Notes are fantastic. Users who
·birchtree.me·
THAT FEATURE IS SO COOL! I’ll never use it, though.
AI for the rest of us
AI for the rest of us
Apple Intelligence makes a lot of sense when you get out of the AI bubble. Plus, the cool technical details Apple shared about their language models "thinking different."
·interconnects.ai·
AI for the rest of us
Fossify Apps: Replacing Simple Mobile Tools
Fossify Apps: Replacing Simple Mobile Tools
Simple Mobile Tools was purchased and now does everything it used to refuse to. Fossify is a privacy-respecting fork.
·hyperborea.org·
Fossify Apps: Replacing Simple Mobile Tools
Linux is like Ice Cream
Linux is like Ice Cream
Princeton is famous for its university, but the town is also known for its amazing ice cream shops. There are…
·optoutproject.net·
Linux is like Ice Cream