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The Devil in the Stack

Andrew Smith . August 2024 . Beaverton Lib. 005.1 SMI

Andrew Smith 1961

My first glance at this book was off-putting - I somehow got the idea that the author thought perjoratively about programmers and technologists. The book is actually a journalist making a deep and sincere dive into software, the communities of people who create and maintain it, and how they think about it.

• pXI Prologue, 2013 and Bitcoin , pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto

• pXI Adam Back cryptographer, cyberpunk, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

• pXIII Bitcoin uses C++

• pXIV Bitcoin exegesis: Satoshi not C++ native, learned to code in 1980s, mixed US/British spellings

• pXV Russian(s)? Vladislav Surkov? Putin’s Rasputinreflexive control

• pXVII demimonde derangingfebrile

• pXXVIII TV shows Silicon ValleyMr. RobotRussian Doll 10Xer 5% women 3% black

• pXXVIII Facebook Myanmar genocideIndiaSri Lanka

• p001 1700 to 9000 programming languages

• p002 freeCodeCamp 2014 Quincy Larson

• p002 trio of web languages: HTML CSS JavaScript

• p003 shift-devil: dash that should have been underscore

• p004 fCC freeCodeCamp W3Schools

• p005 Pascal case Camel case

• p005 lorem ipsum

• p007 programming is never easy ... accept that feeling -- of being constantly wrong and not knowing
• p008 ... exposes me as probably no smarter than an economist.

• p011 Gerald Weinberg The Psychology of Computer Programming

• p014 Python Software Foundation Guido van Rossum

• p016 Bloomberg essay What is code?

• p018 Nicholas Tollervey Don't let anyone tell you code is not political

• p018 Zen of Python

• p019 There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

  • compare Larry Wall's TIMTOWTDI for Perl