This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.
A “making of” for Charles Petzold’s new book. Looks to be a semi-sequel to his “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software”, which is a wonderful book.