As Presaged in January 1996
A software developer reflects on the computing industry of 1996, analyzing a prescient Byte Magazine article about the web, browsers, and Java.
Michael Fogus’ Send More Paramedics explores programming languages, software design, Lisp, and computational ideas through thoughtful essays, experiments, and cultural commentary. A long-running blog blending code, theory, and creative technical writing since 2002.
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A software developer reflects on the computing industry of 1996, analyzing a prescient Byte Magazine article about the web, browsers, and Java.
Reflects on the shift in programming language development from a period of major new languages to a more fragmented, domain-specific era.
Explores using function arities as a pseudo-protocol in Clojure's Flow library, comparing it to traditional protocol-based design.
A developer explains his minimalist blogging setup using Bash, Pandoc, and Clojure to convert text/Markdown to HTML, replacing a complex WordPress instance.