The Last Generation of Programmers – the first generation of builders

I spent twenty years acquiring a skill set that took a lifetime to build and that no one will ever need to compile again. How I almost missed it I don’t have the stereotypical programmer’s origin story. No disassembling computers at age seven, no BASIC programs typed into the family TV. My path to programming Read More …

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2010. That’s about Read More …