by David Boreham | Jan 16, 2026 | General, Uncategorized
Supposedly the KIM-1 is 50 years old. Nobody seems to know the exact date it first shipped, but “January 1976” is the consensus so today seems as good a day as any.What’s a KIM-1 I hear some of you ask? Well history is strange stuff, written by the...
by David Boreham | Oct 21, 2024 | Programming, Uncategorized
Online education coding platforms such as CodeAcademy have existed for years but I’ve always found them to provide a rather artificial sandboxed environment that doesn’t easily translate to real world coding. Meanwhile a new category of sites that allow...
by David Boreham | Oct 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
Through a post on Hacker News, and via its cited article, I found myself transported back to the days when we wrote locking primitive implementations, tussling with the challenges of porting across many CPU architectures and operating systems. I worked on code like...
by Thomas Lackey | Jan 22, 2021 | General, Uncategorized
Most of the time, adding a library or package as a dependency to a JavaScript project using yarn (or its ancestor npm) is as simple as typing yarn add the-pkg-i-want to get the latest version. But this article is not about that. This article...
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