Michael Swaine

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Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

The definitive history of the personal computer revolution, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, by two writers who witnessed it happening.

2014

Michael Swaine

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Stories

That’s How to Do a Press Conference

The United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.

Protest and Poetry

What is this, the Sixties?

Vibe Coding

Feel the vibe. Ride the wave. Surrender to the borg.

The Work Is Its Final Word

Nominally Irish.

The Naming of Things

A short post, with rhymes.

Rhymes and Reason

A tech blog anyone can learn from.

DeepSeek

The Sputnik moment and an interlocking Rubáiyát.

When I Could Levitate

Mainframe history, Krazy Kat, lies about Donatella Versace, and levitation.

Poe’s Curtains and an Argument for the Elimination of Personal Pronouns

What’s the deal with those purple curtains?

Units of Time

Take a break. You’ve earned it. You need it. Take several.

Michael Swaine