Tekkie

This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series.

The first video below is from 2021.

*** Warning: This post contains spoilers *** I guess since it’s been so long since “Tron Legacy,” there really isn’t much continuity between it and this movie.

Jackson Tyler produced another really good documentary, this time on NASA’s first space program, Project Mercury.

I have been asked on a couple occasions about how to do this, and I get the impression that the answer I give doesn’t satisfy the people asking, because I basically tell them, “You’re trying to do it wrong.”

Edit 8/31/2026: I misattributed the presentation I discuss here to Arthur Gleckler, when I first wrote this post.

I searched for many years for something that felt like a baseline, that I could present as a basis for learning and exploration re. system programming, and system design.

I saw a question on Quora asking something like, “Why did Alan Kay’s OOP always fail, and the OOP that was implemented as C++, Java, Delphi, etc. always succeed?”

Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used as being “a broken wheel.”

This is a follow-up to my post On improving a computing model.