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Clojure & CLJS. Author of Joy of Clojure & Functional JS. Systems at Cognitect. Abstract strategist. Smeller of old books. Learning to learn better. ジベタリアン. 囲碁.
Jul 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
When I first started working on The Joy of Clojure a sub-goal (aside from even completing it) was to create something that was useful and unique across different editions. This was motivated by the fantastic "Modern Operating Systems" by Tannenbaum.
amazon.com/Modern-Operati… Each edition covers the latest in OSDev tech but it also frames examples in slightly different example Ones, modern and historical. The case studies cover differing sets across different editions and the research sections in older editions typically feed the focus of later eds.
May 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
You live in another timeline where your only computer is an Intel 386-based machine running MS-DOS 5.0.

What games are you playing, what is your dev environment, what are your productivity apps? I'm playing DND by R.O.Software. Programming in Turbo C++. I'm writing in Wordstar and taking notes with KAMAS.
Jul 20, 2017 • 38 tweets • 10 min read
Today's reading.
archive.org/details/Apple_… I'm not familiar with the author David T. Craig. Any further information on his other works is appreciated.
Jul 19, 2017 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Retrocomputing find of the day. "Apple Pascal: A Hands On Approach" --> web.archive.org/web/2015040500… This book is especially interesting because it required the reader to have an Apple II with a Microsoft Softcard installed.
Jun 29, 2017 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
Today's reading.
books.google.com/books?id=IT4EA… It's apt that this issue has an obit for Tandy, the man who rescued Radio Shack in 1968... a company now on the brink of death.