The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
To shed light on the software that has tilted the world on its axis, editors polled computer scientists, software developers, historians, policymakers, and...
Author Archives: John Buck
How the Boeing 737 Max Disaster Looks to a Software Developer
That is the title of an IEEE Spectrum “Opinion” article that I found via Metafilter. In addition to reading the article, I suggest you...
File or Path Name Too Long? Find out before you do your backup
Those of us who back up our devices sometimes get a message that some file couldn’t be backed up because its name — more...
Learn and see some Internet history
“The million dollar homepage is still online, a snapshot of the internet circa 2005, but many of its links are dead, or point to...
It’s Your iPhone. Why Can’t You Fix It Yourself?
Excerpted from www.nytimes.com. Go there to read the whole article, and comments. “A giant John Deere tractor and a pocket-size Apple iPhone have something...