The Weekly Squeak — Nerd legacy
Issue number 45. Anyone remember 45 rpm records? I barely remember them, but do recall my Dad spinning some… Before it got stuck on 33 1/3 speed and we could only listen to albums.
In a subtle segue, my first articles this week is about preserving our digital legacy. How will we access anything when all the readers are broken?
xx Chinch
Podcast version
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How to Ensure Our Digital Legacy Isn’t Lost to the Future — onezero.medium.com
How can the most digitized generation in history tackle the problem of bit rot.
The Mac OS 9 Installer is an Amazing Internet Time Capsule — www.versionmuseum.com
Apple’s OS 9 installer educated users about the internet and how to use it. It’s an incredible time machine back to 1999, when under 5% of people on Earth used the internet.
Apple has copied some of the most popular apps in the App Store for its iPhone, iPad and other software updates — www.washingtonpost.com
Developers have come to accept that, without warning, Apple can make their work obsolete by announcing a new app or feature that essentially copies their ideas. Some apps have simply buckled under the pressure.
Why your COBOL code isn’t going anywhere — techbeacon.com
COBOL just won’t die, for lots of good reasons. Here’s why you should keep your existing apps.
Richard Stallman and the Fall of the Clueless Nerd — www.wired.com
The controversial pioneer of free software resigned from MIT over his remarks on Jeffrey Epstein and Marvin Minsky. Stallman won’t be the last.
Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding — stackoverflow.blog
Two giants of the industry discuss their ideas.
