As with basically every tech book I've ever read, I can't help but wish I was getting the same perspective on the most recent developments. 2017 is starting to feel like a long time ago, especially in internet time. 1/?
As with basically every tech book I've ever read, I can't help but wish I was getting the same perspective on the most recent developments. 2017 is starting to feel like a long time ago, especially in internet time. 1/?
Mood. Vocational mood, but also, life mood. ☺️
Poor computers, just victims of our changeable human whims. 🖥️😵💫
Love the cover colour way for memoirs by women talking about their chosen field. ♥️🤍
Borrowed this from the library...I'm going to buy it so I can always have it around.
This was an odd read (or in my case, an odd listen). The history was at times interesting, but overall it was more “snapshots of the last 30 years in tech” than it was a memoir of a woman in STEM. 12/100 for the year.
Pondering the TBR shelf in preparation for #24in48.
Having flashbacks with this...corporate clients running Windows NT, Slackware being the popular Linux distro.
Quiet day at work today, so I pulled this up on Libby (it‘s work-related...ish.) Not a very engaging narrator, but it‘s interesting.
#riotgrams Day 3 - Three Word Titles. I chose to include "the" and ignore anything that sounds like it should have a semicolon. ? Y'all made me break up my color coding! ???
#TBRtemptation post 7! Just released. In 1997, Ulam wrote the classic "Close To the Machine", an account of the lives of computer programmers such as herself from the 1970s-'90s. Now, she shows what the next 20 years has been like for her and her squad of socially awkward West Coast geeks. This is a series of essays--not all of them positive--about how we got to now through the Internet's rise and so much more. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ?
Also a fair bit of how shitty expectations/labour practices were (are?) for programmers, and a good dose of 'they don't make 'em like they used to'.
Interesting to get this POV on Y2K, the dot-com bubble. 6mo
Overall I think this book was a bit of a mismatch for me as a reader. 6mo