Marcus Schimizzi in Hackers in the Bazaar

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…

Marcus Schimizzi in Hackers in the Bazaar

Feb 23, 2019

Reading 04: Programming Languages

I’m pretty fascinated with Paul Graham’s take on programming languages in the three essays “Beating…

Marcus Schimizzi in Hackers in the Bazaar

Feb 16, 2019

Reading 03: Artistic Hackery

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

Marcus Schimizzi in Hackers in the Bazaar

Feb 2, 2019

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…