

The Notched Bone Computing Device
Just discovered a good article on the history of computing devices from notched bones (yes really) onwards. Well worth reading.

the historian
Apr 14, 2017


Aristotle Paves The Way For Computer Logic
See this fantastic article in The Atlantic Monthly that describes how logic was first invented by Aristotle and then driven forward in...

the historian
Apr 10, 2017


Top 10 Programming Languages?
What are the 'Top 10' programming languages? Top 10 lists frequently appear based on ...... who knows what research? But the core set of...

Trend spotter
Mar 25, 2017


The Ethernet is back, in your car!
WiFi just won't cut it to handle the sensors in your car so Ethernet is back. Just when you thought it was on the way out!

Trend spotter
Mar 16, 2017


The blockchain world continues to contract
The latest word on the bitcoin transaction rate limit is that it's now reached 6 transactions a second. Wow! That certainly helps define...

OLTP Head
Mar 13, 2017


Legacy systems are problems for boards not geeks
The FT recently published an article headed "Legacy systems are problems for boards not geeks" which made the often forgotten point that...

the spanitis blogger
Feb 7, 2017


Blockchain: It's make or break time
The FT's #fintech newsletter this week highlights the distinct lack of blockchain based systems that have been delivered. Perhaps the...

the spanitis blogger
Jan 17, 2017


The philosophy of Digital Reductionism. The end of human creativity?
Since the dawn of the digital era, at least, the belief that human activity can be reduced to a series of steps, a computer algorithm,...

the spanitis blogger
Jan 10, 2017


We help kick off the geek-chic fashion trend
! A totally unforeseen side effect of spanitis organising the publication of the book The Programmer's Odyssey has been our involvement...

Trend spotter
Jan 1, 2017


The surprising secret of Bloomberg
The Bloomberg terminal: clunky, costly, addictive, ubiquitous There's a good article (headline above) in the Financial Times on how the...

FT reader
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