A magazine about programmers, code, and society. Written by and for humans since 2018.
October 5th, 2020
Welcome to the twenty-fifth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, starting our third year with a rediscovery of Smalltalk. In this edition, Graham explains that Smalltalk was not a pink plane improvement; Adrian dipped his toes in Smalltalk and wrote about his experience; and in the Library section, Graham describes the greatest contributions of Kent Beck to software engineering.
March 2nd, 2020
Welcome to the eighteenth issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, dedicated to the subject of Obsolescence. In this edition, Graham pleads for longer living computer systems, and an end to the prevailing tech consumerism, Adrian writes about the upcoming, unavoidable, greatest revolution in computing, and then in the Library section, explores Jean Sammet's 1969 opus "Programming Languages, History and Fundamentals."
