Fun(?) with Arithmetic, the 1980s Way
A routine arithmetic challenge, TRS-80 Model III ROM BASIC, and a return to the technology I used as a teenager in my first job.
Flavio de Sousa
Learning BASIC since 1981
The Myth of the AI Rowan
We treat AI like Rowan from A Message to Garcia—expecting it to navigate a reality it cannot see. Why our blind spot for our own tacit context turns expensive compute into wasted engineering time.
The Ultimate Abstraction
For 80 years, we stacked abstractions just to manage the machine. Now, human language is the code. But when we stop auditing the output, the middle layers vanish. The circle finally closes: back to pure binary and raw, unadulterated power.
The Sin of Set
Setters. The most ubiquitous anti-pattern, and the least talked about.
Reinventing Unix?
Somebody who deleted himself posted this comment about another Microservices craze critique. I reproduced it below for the sake of hoarding:
"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it,