If you look at software today, through the lens of the history of engineering, it’s certainly engineering of a sort - but it’s the kind of engineering that people without the concept of the arch did. Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
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My name is Erik Mallinson. I draw pictures, make music, and some other stuff. I like playing the ‘ukulele, riding my scooter around Boston, and playing board games.
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Posts tagged programming
Jun7
Alan Kay
via Jesse Grosjean
Jun3
Prefetch Content with HTML5→
I deny that I’m a web design geek but things like this get me all hot and bothered and it’s then I realize that it’s a part of me I cannot completely ignore. HTML5 is incredibly exciting.
via Jim Cloudman
Jun10
The iPhone app I just made.