Julius Welby

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@NanoRaptor I worry that without one we might get phantom body pain.
@judell Wireless shifting is a thing now, too.
@rachelandrew Glorious!
@u0421793 @judell It’s more of a shrubbery.
@mwichary Do you think the OS is doing sentiment analysis, and the more negative you get about Apple in a document the more the UI degrades?

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

@keenan They radiate in the infrared.
Truly smart devices would choose not to connect to the internet.
The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator https://larslofgren.com/codesmith-reddit-reputation-attack/
The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into your company. The first couple of years, students love your program. Positive feedback, extraordinary student outcomes, employees love the mission. You are quite literally […]

Lars Lofgren