There are a few moments in our lives when we have an epiphany. This Substack flows from one of them: the moment, well over 40 years ago, in the tiny spare bedroom at my parents’ house, after 3 weeks experimenting with dad’s ZX81, when I suddenly understood what powerful tools computers are.

“It’s like magic: you can do anything with a computer, if you can just work out how.”

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Reflections from 40 years in software

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