The year is 1995, the climax of the “virtual reality” fad. Virtual reality was about to become a big industry, or something. You could even get a degree in it. Except… where is it? It’s in movies, some pretty bad movies, at least. It’s at...
Last time, I talked about what a sales receipt represented in JSON format might look like. But in the aftermath, I realized something important: I had left too many options open for how to display the information. Initially that detail wasn’t a concern, and I...
When people look over my shoulder, one of the comments I often get is, "What program is THAT?" Since about 1990 or so, I’d been using this file management utility called XTree. The last version for DOS was called XTreeGold. I used it for many years,...
Or: Wielding the Terrible Power Instead of talking about the code or the tools, I’d like to address the personalities of those responsible for building the web sites and software we have to use every day. Why is so much software, well, not necessarily broken,...
Last time, I rambled for a while about what it might be like to have a file format for itemizing a sales receipt. This spurred a bit of conversation, which was helpful. In particular, Troy Farrell offered some very sound observations, including that printed barcodes...
