Levels of abstraction in a modern computer that's running a web application. (The simplicity of the table belies the galaxy of information needed to understand every layer.)

I’m currently reading a historical computing book. As well-written as it is, there’s no mention of Noam Chomsky (grammars), Stephen Kleene (regular expressions), Kathleen Boothe (1st assembly language), or Alick Glennie (1st compiled language).

Because time based systems are always inferior to event based systems. Time is always relative. A single unsynchronized clock may break your hotfix.

“Oh.” - me, in late 2024, realizing that blockchains are an important technology, not merely a mechanism for pump and dumps.

Charlie Simms

@validdiktorian