If, like me, you’re a commercial aviation otaku, this walkthrough of an enthusiast built 747 cockpit simulator should be highly relevant to your interests.
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5 Dec 2019
17 Nov 2019
Read more over at the Living Computer Museum’s restoration page.
16 Nov 2019
UNIX turns 50 this year which means 7th edition Research UNIX is that 40.
20 Feb 2019
A great presentation by Michael Feathers which asks the question “if we want reliable software, is more testing really the answer?”
30 Dec 2018
How did personal computing start? Many credit Apple and IBM for this radical shift, but in 1973, years before the Apple II and IBM PC, Xerox built the Alto, a computer its makers thought could become the “computer of tomorrow.” The Alto embodied for the first time many of the defining features of personal computing […]
15 Nov 2018
What do you do if its the late 1950’s and you need to project live video? Overhead LCD projectors–let alone the computers to drive them–haven’t been invented yet. The answer is the Eidophor, the most bonkers overhead projection system you’ve probably never heard of. Original link
11 Nov 2018
Do you want to lie back on your death bed and say, Well, at least I didn’t make a fuss? Please consider supporting archivists like Jason by donating to the Internet Archive. Original link
3 Nov 2018
Every since I started giving my High Performance Go workshop I’ve been fascinated with the physics of semiconductors. This presentation from Hope Conference ’09 doesn’t cover the latest EUV shenanigans, but does an excellent job of detailing the difficulties in semiconductor manufacturing ten years ago. The problems have only become more complicated as semiconductor fabs attempt […]
15 Oct 2018
As the tech lead on non SaaS product I spend a lot of my time worrying about testing. Specifically we have tests that cover code, but what is covering the tests? Tests are important to give you certainty that what your product says on the tin is what it will do when people take it home […]
6 Oct 2018
A fascinating wide ranging interview with Dave Cutler, the creator of RSX-11M, VMS, and Windows NT. Bonus: Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft. The book on the early history of the creation of Windows NT.
28 Sept 2018
An excellent talk about the importance of simplicity in the language which is anything but: NDC Techtown 2018 playlist
26 Sept 2018
The interaction between career development and on-call is actually really, really, bad. Bluntly, the profession takes on-call seriously, tries to be good at it, yet it is very very rare for this to be rewarded in any meaningful way. In 11 years at my previous employer, I never saw anyone get promoted for on-call performance. […]
23 Sept 2018
One of my favourite talks from the elusive Systems We Love conference series. Videos: https://systemswe.love/videos
16 Sept 2018
Ousterhout’s opus is tearing up tech twitter at the moment. But for those outside the North American prime shipping service area, we’re shit out of luck until a digital version is available. Until then, here’s Ousterhout’s Google Tech talk: Slides: https://platformlab.stanford.edu/Seminar%20Talks/retreat-2017/John%20Ousterhout.pdf CS190: https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/cs190-winter18/index.php
15 Sept 2018
“It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.” Douglas Crockford I stumbled across this old (in internet years) presentation a few weeks ago and it’s been on high rotation since. If you can look past the recording difficulties (and the evacuation […]
19 Aug 2018
This weekend I’ve been freshening up the introductory material for a workshop that Francesc Campoy and I are teaching at GopherCon this month. As part of my research, these videos have been on high rotation. The first video by Sophie Wilson, the designer of the first ARM chip from which both the company and the line […]