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I spent nearly four decades as a programmer in almost every kind of environment and industry. No matter what my title was, I was always a programmer. I constantly learned new things, found new challenges, and went on various adventures (not always fun ones). After retiring in 2021, I now.
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Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life
After graduating from college in 1979, I bought a then-new Apple II+ with what little money I had. Little did I know that everything that happened after that was not what I expected.I went to graduate school in Chemistry, but my faculty advisor resigned a
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That Time I Trashed The Company Mainframe, And The Lesson I Learned
I started my career in the fall of 1981, and in the first six months, I wrote a Jovial language source code formatter in Fortran. I had no prior experience in programming jobs or college programming classes; all I knew was what I had taught myself at home
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Verizon's I'm A Teapot Error And Other Technology Fails
This is not my week for using technology. None of these problems was my fault, other than my existing in the universe and the attraction that brought.Today, I wanted to review my Verizon mobile account, and I noticed that the website had changed since my
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Why Is Xcode So Antagonistic To Reduced Vision?
My eyesight is generally OK, but I have trouble reading small text, especially medium gray on light gray backgrounds. I usually code in 16 or even 18 point fonts, currently Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono. Every new release of Xcode makes seeing various UI ele
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What Is A Good Programmer?
Am I a good programmer? The short answer is: I don't know what that means.I have been programming for 52 years now, having started in a public high school class in 1973, which is pretty rare because few high schools offered such an opportunity back then.
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