Josef “Jeff” Sipek

2017-03-23

The million dollar engineering problem — Scaling infrastructure in the cloud is easy, so it’s easy to fall into the trap of scaling infrastructure instead of improving efficiency.

Some Notes on the “Who wrote Linux” Kerfuffle

The Ghosts of Internet Time

How a personal project became an exhibition of the most beautifully photographed and detailed bugs you ever saw — Amazing photos of various bugs.

Calculator for Field of View of a Camera and Lens

The Megaprocessor — A microprocessor built from discrete transistors.

Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language

EAA Video — An assortment of EAA produced videos related to just about anything aircraft related (from homebuilding to aerobatics to history).

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

2015-06-15

Going under the hood of Inbox — translating Java to ObjC and Javascript

Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship — a static analysis tool for C, ObjC, and Java

TrainFever — a game inspired by Wikipedia article: Transport Tycoon

How Computers Work: A Journey Into the Walk-Through Computer

Why “Agile” and especially Scrum are terrible — a thorough “rant” about agile and scrum and their effects on overall productivity

Happy 50th, System/360

It’s been a while since I blahged about mainframes. Rest assured, I’m still a huge fan, I’m just preoccupied with other things to continuously extoll their virtues.

The reason I’m writing today is because it is the 50th anniversary of the System/360 announcement. Aside from the “50 years already?” sentiment, I have a couple of images to share. (I found these several years ago on someone’s GeoCities site. It’s a good thing I made a mirror :) )

I also came across this video from 1964:

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