Retro-Addicted, Bleedin’ Edge Afflicted
Rambling posts, writing, and projects based on 50 years immersed in electronics, software, hardware, architecture and technology in general, spanning everything from crystal radios on literal breadboards, primitive computing, early video games, though modern systems and bleeding-edge enterprise-class software/architecture, hardware and current-day approaches to retro-computing and retro-gaming.
I am a life-long technology-addict and autodidactic polymath. I built my first radio, on an actual breadboard (wood, screws and washers) when I was six years old, and wrote my first code (in Z80 assembly language) when I was seven.
My professional life has afforded me the opportunity to work with bleeding-edge systems and practices, both in software and hardware, across the world …
But my passion lies with early systems and technology; the computing (and gaming) landscape as it took place from the mid 1970s and onwards; and while I will delve into the subjects of modern software engineering, architecture and AI, it is those retro-aspects that will be the mainstay of this blog.