Mar 20, 2022
Programming doesn't have to be a very serious
discipline. In fact, sometimes it's better if it's a little silly.
Today we are talking about INTERCAL, the first esoteric programming
language. Is it a joke? Is it a form of hacker folk art? Is it even
a good language? To answer those questions we need to asses what
makes...
Mar 7, 2022
It's
no secret, I'm a big fan of memory. Not only is memory crucial for
the functioning of a computer, it's also plain weird. This episode
we are looking at magnetic core memory; a technology that defined
computing for more than two decades. We'll be talking about how it
works, the impacts of ferrite, and the...
