Reading 10: King of the Ball

The story of the success of Linux is incredible and relatively unprecedented. Going from a just for fun project of Linus to the most used operating system in the world is just about as successful as anything can be. That’s an amazing transformation and should be an inspiring…

Reading 03: Artistic Hackery

In broad strokes (pun intended), Paul Graham’s visions of hackers as akin to painters shares much in common…

Reading 00

What is a hacker?

The entertainment industry has given us many ideas of what the popular perception of a hacker…

Reading 02: Shall We Play A Game?

In the first section of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, hackers did their hacking mostly just because it was their passion. They invested huge amounts of their time into it simply due to their love of hacking. Hacker Ethic was leading the way in how these…

Reading 01: Can Hacker Ethic go mainstream?

In the first section of the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, we get…