Programming

There is a specific sound that defines the childhood of a generation: the high-pitched screech and rhythmic thrum of a data cassette loading into an 8-bit computer. In the early 1980s, the United Kingdom underwent a transformation that was arguably more profound than the arrival of the internet a decade later. While the US was falling in love with the office-centric IBM PC and the “appliance” feel of the Apple Macintosh, the UK was building a nation of bedroom coders. ...

I’m sitting at a desk with two machines. One is a 1981 ZX Spectrum, 16KB of RAM, sitting on a desk in my garage. The other is a 2026 MacBook running Claude Code. Between them lie 45 years of computing history. And here’s the thing that struck me recently: I’m still doing the same thing. On the Spectrum, I’m typing: 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" 20 INPUT A$ 30 IF A$ = "YES" THEN GOTO 50 40 GOTO 10 50 PRINT "YOU SAID YES" On Claude Code, I’m typing: ...

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