Post by @a2_4am@mastodon.social

2026-06-26 13:48 UTC

Due to illness, I was unable to present at INIT HELLO 2026. In this thread I will post my slides and what I was planning to say about them. COPY OF A COPY: How I set out to fix a 40-year-old bug in Copy II Plus and ended up rebuilding the entire application (and fixing the bug) 🧵 #AppleII #retrocomputing

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@a2_4am@mastodon.social 2026-06-26 13:56

This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it? I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

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@retrofan64@oldbytes.space 2026-06-26 17:22

@a2_4am@mastodon.social thank you for this! I hope your health is already returning to normal!

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@Rikkles@mastodon.social 2026-06-26 18:19

@a2_4am@mastodon.social lovely presentation, thank you! BITD I started with 4.2 I think.

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@A2_Canada@mastodon.social 2026-06-26 19:06

@a2_4am@mastodon.social Oh yay, thanks for that! I was looking forward to your presentation. This is second best!

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@europlus@social.europlus.zone 2026-06-26 21:27

@a2_4am@mastodon.social thank you, you’re doing dog’s work! And thank you also for remaining 100% human!

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