Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law, found in his work, Hazards of Prophecy, states “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” I suppose this makes the modern-day programmer something of a wizard. The things programmers are able to craft in our present day astound to such a degree that I often find myself believing that we’re living in the future. Every day is filled with such technological wonder that the quantum-leap level breakthrough has become as common as the nightly news. One of the under-appreciated aspects of the modern programmer is how many different hats they must to wear in […]

It’s my firm belief that the internet is the single greatest accomplishment in the history of human invention. Its very existence towers over Gutenberg’s movable type, dwarfs the still looming shadow of William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper empire, and is more powerful than the grand sum of energy amassed by Oppenheimer’s Atomic Age. The web provides a cornucopia of entertainment, which puts at our disposal tens of thousands of games, an almost limitless supply of music, and the rolling archives of film and television. All of these treasures, along with the entire chronicle of human knowledge, available at the single flick […]