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Billpg industries™. Software Engineering and other forms of wizardry, by Bill P. Godfrey.
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Am I worried AI will take my job?
People sometimes ask if I'm worried that AI will put me out of a job. My honest answer is no, not really. In fact, I've been here before. The first time the machine out-coded me. When I graduated in the 90s, assembly language was still a respectable skill
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8086 Segmented Memory Was a Good Idea. (Almost.)
How's that for a click-bait title. Who in their right mind would defend the monstrosity that is the 8086 segmented memory architecture? By the time I got into 8086 assembly, PCs were mostly 80286-based, but everything still ran under DOS. A "normal" machi
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On no! I've invented SVG badly!
It started, as these things often do, with a tiny spark of inspiration. I was looking at the way Unicode builds those racially diverse family emoji. These use ZWJ sequences to glue together adults, children, and skin-tone modifiers into a single little gl
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Notes from a Helpful Glober - "Stationary"
Dear flat earthers, You might not realise it, but I do genuinely want to help you. I grew up in an environment where you question everything and take no one's word for it, so I understand the instinct. I am a glober, but I don't think you're stupid - I ju
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Hearthfire Part One: Lighting the Flame
Every so often a project lodges itself in your brain and refuses to leave quietly. This began as a late-night thought experiment, the kind that keeps circling until you either build it or write it down. For months it's been pacing around the edges of my m
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