Stack Staves

Stack Staves

Notes on annulomancy, automaton herding, and other unholy technical practices.

07 Dec 2023

There's More To That Nugget of Wisdom

There are some often-quoted quips that don't... quite mean what the people who quote them on Hacker News think they mean.
26 Oct 2023

A Model Better than OSI's

The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft ISO 7498 from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, the OSI model, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king.
07 Oct 2023

Would Separate Call and Data Stacks Save Us From Cthulhu?

One day, a student came to Moon and said: "I understand how to make a better CPU."
15 Aug 2023

More Than Retrocomputing: The Case for Studying Computer History

It's not just about not reinventing the wheel
27 Jul 2023

StackOverflow and AI Purism

Those who have not used bad programming books from the '90s are bound to reinvent them.