Issue 088: Containers – January 2026
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- Shipping Your Computer by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Solomon Hykes by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- James Turnbull by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 087: Considered Harmful – December 2025
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- Harmfully Considered by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Phil Nash by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Joanna Rutkowska by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 086: Borland – November 2025
- Presentation
- A Roller Coaster Of Emotions by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Philippe Kahn by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Federico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden, & Anders Hejlsberg by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 085: Memory Management – October 2025
- Presentation
- Souvenir by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Ryan Baker by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Ulrich Drepper by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 084: Spreadsheets – September 2025
- Presentation
- The OG Low-Code Platform by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Felienne Hermans by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Charles Misner & Patrick Cooney by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 083: PHP – August 2025
- Presentation
- The Toyota Corolla Of Programming by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Kévin Dunglas by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Josh Lockhart & Phil Sturgeon by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 082: Futurism – July 2025
- Presentation
- The Best Way To Predict The Future by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Doug Engelbart by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- J. C. R. Licklider & M. Mitchell Waldrop by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 081: Compilers – June 2025
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- The Allure Of Vibe Coding by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Grace Hopper & David Letterman by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Vikram Chandra by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 080: Windows – May 2025
- Presentation
- Why Wait For The Best When I Could Have You? by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Dave Plummer by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Raymond Chen by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 079: Trust – April 2025
- Presentation
- Who Do You Trust? by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Derek Muller & Linus Sebastian by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- David Rice by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 078: Computer Magazines – March 2025
- Presentation
- As We May Never Think Again by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Retro Gaming Museum by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Pastor Manul Laphroaig, T.G. S.B. by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 077: C++ – February 2025
- Presentation
- Twin Leaks: C++ Walk With Me by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Herb Sutter by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Scott Meyers by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 076: Chess – January 2025
- Presentation
- A Panegyric For Human Chess Players by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Bartek Spitza by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- David Levy & Monty Newborn by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 075: Teaching Programming – December 2024
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- Banning, Adopting, Reckoning by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Jerry Cain by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- A Review Of Research Around Programming Education From The 1960s To Today by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 074: Lotus – November 2024
- Presentation
- There Was A Time That Was Beautiful by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Mitch Kapor by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Freada Kapor Klein by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 073: Floating-Point Arithmetic – October 2024
- Presentation
- The Smartest Concept In Computer Science by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Tom Scott by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Georges Ifrah by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 072: Assholes – September 2024
- Presentation
- The Insane Cult Of The Asshole by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Donnie Berkholz by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Robert Sutton by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 071: Go – August 2024
- Presentation
- The Age Of Concurrency by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Rob Pike by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Sir Tony Hoare by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 070: DOS – July 2024
- Presentation
- A Requiem For DOS by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Gary Kildall by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 069: Architecture – June 2024
- Presentation
- Goodness Gracious, Great Balls Of Mud! by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Dylan Beattie by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Amy Brown & Greg Wilson by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 068: Design – May 2024
- Presentation
- The Impossible Dialogue, Revisited by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Gary Hustwit by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- David Kadavy by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 067: Text Editors – April 2024
- Presentation
- For Lack Of A Better Word by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Fireship by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Charles Petzold by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 066: Version Control – March 2024
- Presentation
- Twenty Years Is Nothing by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Linus Torvalds by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Travis Swicegood by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 065: Pascal – February 2024
- Presentation
- "Lazarus, Come Forth!" by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Niklaus Wirth by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Edward Nash Yourdon by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 064: Retrocomputing – January 2024
- Presentation
- Return to Innocence by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Stewart Cheifet by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Alex Wiltshire & John Short by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 063: Space – December 2023
- Presentation
- Rocket Science by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Margaret Hamilton by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Carl Sagan by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 062: IBM – November 2023
- Presentation
- Think by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Jim Henson by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- James Cortada, Emerson Pugh, & Louis Gerstner Jr. by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 061: Databases – October 2023
- Presentation
- The Elephant In The Room by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Michael Stonebraker by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Christopher J. Date by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 060: Perspectives – September 2023
- Presentation
- By All Means by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Bertrand Russell by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Jens Müller & Julius Wiedemann by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 059: BASIC – August 2023
- Presentation
- Programming The Liberal Arts by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Dartmouth College by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Mark Jones Lorenzo by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 058: Community – July 2023
- Presentation
- The Tragedy Of The Common Enemy by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Guy Kawasaki by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Nadia Asparouhova by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 057: Dress Code – June 2023
- Presentation
- Tenue Correcte Exigée by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Mayuko Inoue by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 056: Operating Systems – May 2023
- Presentation
- Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Ken Ross & Paul Laughton by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer Galvin, & Greg Gagne by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 055: Mathematics – April 2023
- Presentation
- In Praise Of Mathematics by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Nemean by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Guillermo Martínez & Gustavo Piñeiro by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 054: Google – March 2023
- Presentation
- Feeling Lucky by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Google TechTalks by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- John MacCormick by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 053: Gaming – February 2023
- Presentation
- Insert Coin by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- John Romero by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Books About Game Design And Development by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 052: The World Wide Web – January 2023
- Presentation
- From Hypertext To SPAs To Hypertext by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Steve Jobs by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Andy Clarke by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 051: Freelancing – December 2022
- Presentation
- "When You Can't Create, You Can Work" by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Mike Monteiro by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Barry Boehm by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 050: Humor – November 2022
- Presentation
- A Eulogy For Schadenfreude by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Gary Bernhardt by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Geoffrey James by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 049: Object-Oriented Programming – October 2022
- Presentation
- The Hype Cycle Of OOP by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- James Coplien by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- The Gang Of Four by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 048: Evolution – September 2022
- Presentation
- Alan Perlis And The Evolution Of Programming Languages by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Bret Victor by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, & Sangeet Paul Choudary by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 047: Rust – August 2022
- Presentation
- The Double Denim Of Software Engineering by Graham Lee
- The State Of Rust In 2022 by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Michael Feathers by Graham Lee
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Issue 046: Computer Museums – July 2022
- Presentation
- (Computer) Museums In Switzerland by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- The Digital Dark Ages by Graham Lee
- William Aspray by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 045: Requirements – June 2022
- Presentation
- The Other Side Of The Card by Graham Lee
- On Agile Requirements by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Workers Of The (Digital) World by Graham Lee
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Issue 044: Mobile – May 2022
- Presentation
- The Law Of Diminishing Returns by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- On The Duopoly Of Mobile by Graham Lee
- Erica Sadun by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 043: Types – April 2022
- Presentation
- It Is Not The Types That Will Help You by Graham Lee
- Apples And Oranges by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Janet Abbate by Graham Lee
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Issue 042: Trade Unions – March 2022
- Presentation
- Divide Et Impera by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- We Deserve Better. Collectively, We Can Get It. by Graham Lee
- Mar Hicks by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 041: Licensing – February 2022
- Presentation
- Fitness For Purpose by Graham Lee
- The Conquest Of Code by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Richard Matthew Stallman by Graham Lee
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Issue 040: Skeuomorphism – January 2022
- Presentation
- The Button And The Spoon by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- We Cannot Afford To Live Without It by Graham Lee
- Jenifer Tidwell by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 039: Methodology – December 2021
- Presentation
- Methodologies: The Next Two Decades by Graham Lee
- You Are Doing It Wrong by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- The Three Amigos, Among Others by Graham Lee
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Issue 038: Design by Contract – November 2021
- Presentation
- Assertions by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- How To Reason About Mutable State by Graham Lee
- Robert L. Glass by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 037: Microsoft – October 2021
- Presentation
- Putting The $ In Micro$oft by Graham Lee
- Where Does Microsoft Want To Go Today? by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Microsoft's Writings On Security by Graham Lee
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Issue 036: Innovation – September 2021
- Presentation
- InnovationScript by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Innovation To What End? by Graham Lee
- Douglas Crockford by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 035: Python – August 2021
- Presentation
- Majoring In Versions by Graham Lee
- The State Of Python In 2021 by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Tim Peters by Graham Lee
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Issue 034: Job Market – July 2021
- Presentation
- Corals And Sharks by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Do Not Ask Me About How Interviewing Works by Graham Lee
- Chad Fowler by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 033: Management – June 2021
- Presentation
- On The Absence Of Management by Graham Lee
- The Impossible Dialogue by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Camille Fournier by Graham Lee
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Issue 032: Modernism – May 2021
- Presentation
- The Great Rewriting In Rust by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Plus Ça Change… by Graham Lee
- Eric Sink by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 031: English Language – April 2021
- Presentation
- The English-Likeness Monster by Graham Lee
- The Winner Takes It All by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Jef Raskin by Graham Lee
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Issue 030: Home Office – March 2021
- Presentation
- Await! In Async We Trust by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Your Place or Mine? by Graham Lee
- Gerald Weinberg by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 029: Internet of Things – February 2021
- Presentation
- Internet Of Unusable Things by Graham Lee
- On The Need Of Regulation In The IoT Industry by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Douglas Hofstadter by Graham Lee
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Issue 028: Programming as a Hobby – January 2021
- Presentation
- Specialization Is For Insects by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- ZX2020 by Graham Lee
- Michael Hiltzik by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 027: Networking – December 2020
- Presentation
- The Network Is The Computer by Graham Lee
- Sniffing Packets by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Steve McConnell by Graham Lee
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Issue 026: Hardware – November 2020
- Presentation
- Breaking The 3 GHz Barrier by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- The Untimely Demise Of Workstations by Graham Lee
- Peter Norton by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 025: Smalltalk – October 2020
- Presentation
- What Smalltalk Was Not by Graham Lee
- The Absolute No-Frills Quite Ignorant Very Incomplete And Certainly Flawed Beginner's Guide To Smalltalk by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Kent Beck by Graham Lee
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Issue 024: Java – September 2020
- Presentation
- Write Anywhere, Run Once by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Java: The Programmer Environment That Has It All by Graham Lee
- How To Choose A Programming Language For Your Book by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 023: Academia – August 2020
- Presentation
- On Research Software Engineering by Graham Lee
- Teacher, Leave This Kid Alone by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Simson L. Garfinkel & Michael K. Mahoney by Graham Lee
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Issue 022: The Cloud – July 2020
- Presentation
- Somebody Else's Computer As A Service by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Five Computers by Graham Lee
- Brian Kernighan by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 021: Open Source – June 2020
- Presentation
- Once The Rockets Go Up, Who Cares Where They Come Down? by Graham Lee
- Open Always Wins by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- The Community by Graham Lee
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Issue 020: Cycles – May 2020
- Presentation
- Eternally Finally by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- There Ain't Nothin' New Under The Sun by Graham Lee
- Kathy Sierra by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 019: Cross-Platform – April 2020
- Presentation
- Cross-Platform Is The Platform by Graham Lee
- Dr. Dobbs' And The Deathly Cross-Platform App by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Adele Goldberg by Graham Lee
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Issue 018: Obsolescence – March 2020
- Presentation
- A Farewell To The Von Neumann Architecture by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- The Twenty-Year Computer by Graham Lee
- Jean Sammet by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 017: A Retrospective of the 2010s – February 2020
- Presentation
- The Rise And Fall Of Mobile by Graham Lee
- The Truce Of Type Inference by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Barbara Liskov by Graham Lee
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Issue 016: DevOps – January 2020
- Presentation
- Antonomasia by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Play It Again, Sam by Graham Lee
- Bertrand Meyer by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 015: Writing – December 2019
- Presentation
- Why My Team Writes by Graham Lee
- On The Aversion To Writing by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Brad Cox by Graham Lee
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Issue 014: Minimalism – November 2019
- Presentation
- Do I Need A Supercomputer? by Graham Lee
- Complex Vs. Complicated by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 013: Programming Languages – October 2019
- Presentation
- De Programmatica Ipsum Volume 2 by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Choosing A Programming Language by Graham Lee
- Memories Of Hello World by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 012: Being a Senior Developer – September 2019
- Presentation
- At Least by Daniel Steinberg
- Enough Agile by Graham Lee
- Not Being A Developer After 46 by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 011: Artificial Intelligence – August 2019
- Presentation
- From AOP To AI by Adam Jones
- Open Letter To A Future AI by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Artificial Intelligence, Bias, And Opportunity by Graham Lee
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Issue 010: Programming Paradigms – July 2019
- Presentation
- On The Influence Of Programming Language Paradigms by Guido de Caso
- In Which Thought Is Implied by Graham Lee
- Alan Turing Wrote Object-Oriented Code In C And Ran It On BEAM by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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- Presentation
- The Software Industry Must Rethink Knowledge-Sharing by Graham Lee
- Less Evangelization, More Honestization by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 008: Programming History – May 2019
- Presentation
- A Brief And Painful History Of Programming by Fernando Rodriguez
- History Repeating by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- History Is A Fiction by Graham Lee
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Issue 007: Work – April 2019
- Presentation
- Business As Unusual by Marie-Cécile Godwin Paccard
- Learnings From Toxic Abuse by Adrian Tineo
- Finding A Purpose by Graham Lee
- Tales Of The Interview by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 006: Diversity & Inclusion – March 2019
- Presentation
- Sheree Atcheson On Diversity And Inclusion by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- Hiring Diversity (Beta Version) by Julia Cacciapuoti
- Why I Want People To Not Treat Me Differently by Susanna Riccardi
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Issue 005: Ethics – February 2019
- Presentation
- The Current State Of Ethics In Tech by Agis Tsaraboulidis
- Primum Non Nocere by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- What Is To Be Done? by Graham Lee
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Issue 004: Programming, Art or Science? – January 2019
- Presentation
- The Creativity Of Computing by Carola Nitz
- Why Not Both? by Roland Leth
- The Art Of "The Art Of Computer Programming" by Graham Lee
- A Brief History Of Programming Artists by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 003: Security – December 2018
- Presentation
- Secure Development Is Dead, Long Live Secure Development by Anastasiia Vixentael
- The Weakest Link by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- On Modern Security Culture by Graham Lee
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Issue 002: Quality – November 2018
- Presentation
- On Some Things Quality Related by Ioana Porcarasu
- The Various Meanings Of Quality by Graham Lee
- The Ipsum Quality Process: 12 Steps To Better Teams by Adrian Kosmaczewski
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Issue 001: Hype – October 2018
- Presentation
- De Programmatica Ipsum – On Programming Itself by Graham Lee
- Mainstream Is The New Hype by Adrian Kosmaczewski
- What Is Behind The Hype? by Graham Lee
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