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The Interview

the start of a movie…

Mar 6, 2022

The Interview

Mar 6, 2022

Dave Thomas

Just what is a modem?

Modems connect digital devices. In the old days that made lots of strange noises; today they’re thousands of times faster and (thankfully)…

Aug 10, 2021

Just what is a modem?

Aug 10, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF #10: Call-By-Name May Give You Nightmares

Look at how call-by-name works in an old program, and you’ll marvel at how dangerous it is. But, we’re still doing something similar today.

Aug 4, 2021

WCF #10: Call-By-Name May Give You Nightmares

Aug 4, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF#9: State Machines and Web Apps

It turns our that state machines have a lot in common with reducers, and reducers are an important element when managing immutable data…

Aug 3, 2021

WCF#9: State Machines and Web Apps

Aug 3, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF#8: Untangle Spaghetti Code With This Simple, But Old,Technique

Breaking code down into self-contained chunks that respond to events sounds difficult. It needn’t be…

Aug 2, 2021

WCF#8: Untangle Spaghetti Code With This Simple, But Old,Technique

Aug 2, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF#7: Fractions and Floats

Computers represent all numbers as fractions. No exceptions. This can make them inaccurate.

Jul 30, 2021

WCF#7: Fractions and Floats

Jul 30, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF#6: Just How Do Computers Add?

We’re told that computers are just fast, programmable adding machines. OK. But just how does a machine add 42 and 75, or subtract 5 from 3?

Jul 29, 2021

WCF#6: Just How Do Computers Add?

Jul 29, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF #5: A Most Elegant Data Structure

A data structure from the 1960’s is still pretty cool today.

Jul 28, 2021

WCF #5: A Most Elegant Data Structure

Jul 28, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF #4: What’s The Deal With ++ and ––?

Why do some programming languages have the strange (and side-effect laden) auto-increment and -decrement operators? And what do they have…

Jul 27, 2021

WCF #4: What’s The Deal
With ++ and ––?

Jul 27, 2021

Dave Thomas

WCF #3: Where does all the colored text in my terminal come from?

Why (and how) your computer can emulate a 40 year old CRT terminal.

Jul 26, 2021

WCF #3: Where does all the colored text in my terminal come from?

Jul 26, 2021

Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas

Programmer. Writer (Pragmatic Programmer, Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development w/ Rails, Programming Elixir). Manifesto for Agile S/W Development. Speaker

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