Year: 2019

To truly understand the wheel, you need to reinvent it Photo by Jon Cartagena  The other day I interviewed a senior developer position with a JavaScript developer. My colleague, who was also in the interview, asked the interviewee to write a function that would perform an HTTP call and retry it a number of times …

I wrote recently about my son playing Zork on a serial terminal hooked up to a PDP-11, and how I eventually bought a vt420 (ok, some vt420s and vt510s, I couldn’t stop at one) and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi. This led me down another path: there is a whole set of hardware and software …