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A tragedy, yes. I can't be the only old fart around here with fond memories of John Siracusa's macOS ("OS X") reviews & Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' deep dives in CPU
by BruceEel 7mo ago
A tragedy, yes. I can't be the only old fart around here with fond memories of John Siracusa's macOS ("OS X") reviews & Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' deep dives in CPU microarchitectures...
- herodoturtle 7mo agoCertainly not the only old fart ‘round these parts. Your comment reminded me of Dr Dobbs Journal for some reason.
- guiambros 7mo agoDr Dobbs was pretty good until almost the end, no? If memory serves me well, I recall the magazine got thinner and more sparse towards the end, but still high signal-to-noise ratio. Quite the opposite of Ars T. Huge debt of gratitude to DDJ. I remember taking the bus to the capital every month just to buy the magazine on the newsstand.
- trollbridge 7mo agoI would go to the library on my bicycle to scour for a new copy of DDJ as a 10 year old. I had dreams of someday meeting “Dr. Dobbs.” Of course, that was back in the day when Microsoft mailed me a free Windows SDK with printed manuals when I sent them a letter asking them how to write Windows programs, complete with a note from somebody important (maybe Ballmer) wishing me luck programming for Windows. Wish I’d kept it.
- kbutler 7mo agoI finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.
- calmbonsai 7mo agoAnyone remember "Compute!"? I still have (mostly) fond memories of typing in games in Basic. Actually, bugs in those listings were my first bug-hunts as a kid.
- NetMageSCW 7mo agoCompute!, Dr. Dobb’s, Kilobaud Microcomputing, Byte. Good magazines that are missed.
- calmbonsai 7mo agoJohn Siracusa's macOS reviews were so in-depth people even published reviews of his reviews.