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In which we recommend deleting your code. Steve McConnell’s More Effective Agile Ward Cunningham introduces the debt metaphor for bad code, and my guess is it won’t be familiar as he presented it if you think you’re familiar with the … Continue reading →

In which I admit to having used a very large number of Apple computers, even if I exclude vintage pieces. But actually talk about setting up a second one. The Twitter poll that started it all.

Carrying on from Episode 16, I wonder whether it matters that Apple switch to RISC-V next decade anyway. Sophie Wilson’s talk on the future of microprocessors Huang’s Law, saying that GPUs are improving at machine learning applications faster than CPUs … Continue reading →

In this episode I predict Apple’s transition to the RISC-V CPU architecture. "[Clive Sinclair] was an irascible man who was always charging up and down shouting and throwing his slide rule around" BBC Micro Men, on Sinclair and Chris Curry’s … Continue reading →

In this episode, I work out how to use a computer to store and operate on numbers. I think it could catch on. I got the descriptions of endianness the wrong way around! When I talk about the order of … Continue reading →

In which I talk about various ways of packaging software and getting it onto your users’ computers. You probably won’t notice, but I got the episode number wrong, and corrected it flawlessly in post-production. Along the way, I mentioned: Solaris … Continue reading →