I finished Masters of Doom a few weeks ago and I’m nearly done with Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Both books hit harder than they should, given I already knew most of the stories. But reading them back-to-back crystallized something that’s been nagging at me for months. There’s a line in Hackers about the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1960s: “Access to computers should be unlimited and total. All information should be free.” ...
I’ve been sitting on this comparison for a while, trying to decide if it was too obvious to write about. Then a good friend of mine DM’d me on Slack about “every vibe coding tech bro is now vibe coding a dashboard to ‘monitor the global situation’. my feed is full of it.” with some screenshots of the kind of stuff that’s popping up everywhere. And it just reminded me; I’m not imagining this. ...
PC Master Race? I’ve always been a multi-platform gamer. I’ve always loved collecting consoles, and have had a varied gaming experience over many generations. But I considered myself a PC gamer first. I’d always go back to PC whenever I could. And I LOVED upgrading my PC, and modding my PC, and overclocking my PC. It may not sound like much now, but I remember the first time I had a stable 5Ghz on i7-2600K on air cooling. It. Was. Awesome. ...
The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct: My Unfiltered Thoughts The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct seems to have people up in arms about things. There are a lot of comments flying around, and I have some opinions on them - some of them gonna be unpopular, some I hope will be a voice of reason (at least from my perspective), and others I’m just downright annoyed about… Keep in mind that my opinions are informed by my own experiences, which includes over 30 years of gaming (console, PC and handheld) and over 20 years in the software industry, with only the last 3 or so having any kind of direct gaming industry involvement (if solo indie dev counts). ...