De Programmatica Ipsum

A magazine about programmers, code, and society • Written by and for humans since October 2018 • Think • New issue every first Monday of every month • Created by Graham Lee, D.Phil (npub19lh…z253) and Adrian Kosmaczewski (npub1p6v…hqg9) • No advertising • No paywalls • All issues and yearly volumes freely available as DRM-free PDF and EPUB files, and on the RSS feed • 100% supported by its readers

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2026-06-17 15:02:52 UTC

"Kids, this was 20 years before Go or Kubernetes were even conceived. Erlang enabled companies to scale their services in ways that were unthinkable even by today’s standards, running on hardware way underpowered compared to that of our modern world of 2026."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/joe-armstrong/

2026-06-13 12:02:38 UTC

"When Apple introduced their new line of Power Mac G4 computers in 1999, they famously made much of their classification as a supercomputer under the export controls legislation in the United States at the time."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/do-i-need-a-supercomputer/

2026-04-12 08:53:39 UTC

"Computing needs to become significantly more long-term in its outlook, if we are to play our part in the coming move from a growth economy to a planetary survival civilisation. We need to move from a situation in which we expect people to buy (or lease) a new handheld computer every 1-2 years, even if their existing one works fine."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-twenty-year-computer/

2024-11-11 07:01:04 UTC

Starting today, download your favorite DPI issues in DRM-free EPUB format to your preferred ebook reader device! You can find the links to the PDF and EPUB versions in the "Issues" archive, and at the bottom of each article. Enjoy your 100% DRM free reading!
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/archives/
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2024-11-10 09:09:41 UTC

"Bret goes on to explain four major ways programming could evolve, as seen from the point of view of a hypothetical researcher in the early seventies.
Or, put another way, showing us what the future used to look like."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bret-victor/

2024-11-01 08:24:28 UTC

"Is there a way to avoid repeating mistakes in software engineering by applying history? There is such a fast pace in this industry that by the age of 35 most software developers have a “Senior” title, and, as Steven Sinofsky pointed out, a rather large collection of t-shirts bearing the names of obsolete technologies."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/history-repeating/

2024-10-26 11:46:10 UTC

"Imagine pulling down the 'Font' menu in Microsoft Word and being greeted with 'Neue Haas Grotesk'. Ugh. I would immediately choose Comic Sans instead."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/gary-hustwit/

2022-10-30 08:42:46 UTC

#introduction
De Programmatica Ipsum is a monthly publication, the collaboration of @npub1ske…69wd and @npub16pt…0v29, self-described as “two old burnt out guys shouting into the void *.”
De Programmatica Ipsum features new articles on the first Monday of every month about the craft of software engineering, and the life of software developers, with a focus on issues like inclusion, burnout, startup life, hype and heresy, and other related topics.
De Programmatica Ipsum does not use advertising or analytics.