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Month: October 2020

  • The Ascent of Man

    is an excellent book by Jacob Bronowski (isbn 0-7088-2035-2) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Evolution is the climbing of a ladder from the simple to the complex by steps, each of which is stable in itself. The turning point to…

  • The Ascent of Man

    is an excellent book by Jacob Bronowski (isbn 0-7088-2035-2) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Evolution is the climbing of a ladder from the simple to the complex by steps, each of which is stable in itself. The turning point to…

  • Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins

    Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although it had a desktop publisher and line-art based graphics package in its suite it didn’t have a bitmap editor and so…

  • Fast Hardware Hides Many Sins

    Way back at the beginning of my professional programming career I worked for a small software house that wrote graphics software. Although it had a desktop publisher and line-art based graphics package in its suite it didn’t have a bitmap editor and so…

  • TDD – Romanes Eunt Domus!

  • TDD – Romanes Eunt Domus!

  • What is Life?

    is an excellent book by Paul Nurse (isbn 978-1-788451-40-6) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Cells repair these mutations, but they are not completely successful. If they were, all individuals of a species would be identical and evo…

  • What is Life?

    is an excellent book by Paul Nurse (isbn 978-1-788451-40-6) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Cells repair these mutations, but they are not completely successful. If they were, all individuals of a species would be identical and evo…

  • Code your first game: Snake in JavaScript (on Raspberry Pi)

    Welcome! We are going to code a whole snake game. It’s going to look like this: It doesn’t matter if you have never written any code before: I am going to try and explain everything from scratch. I’m going to assume you are using a Raspberry Pi. but y…

  • Sapiens. A Brief History of Human Kind

    is an excellent book by Yuval Noah Harari (isbn 978-0-099-59008-8) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. Since long inte…

  • Sapiens. A Brief History of Human Kind

    is an excellent book by Yuval Noah Harari (isbn 978-0-099-59008-8) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. Since long inte…

  • The Culture Code

    is an excellent book by Daniel Coyle (isbn 978-1-847-94127-5) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Much of the connection happens around the dinner table, as Popovich is obsessed with food and wine. One misconception about highly succ…

  • The Culture Code

    is an excellent book by Daniel Coyle (isbn 978-1-847-94127-5) As usual I’m going to quote from a few pages. Much of the connection happens around the dinner table, as Popovich is obsessed with food and wine. One misconception about highly succ…