I’m writing again(www.cringely.com)
108 pointsby dan_hawkins13 hours ago19 comments
  • tjansen7 hours ago
    I wouldn't be here if I hadn't somehow obtained and read Accidental Empires as a kid. Still no empire of my own though :(
    • robterrell3 hours ago
      Recently I've been thinking about the nerds/hippie dichotomy from that book. Really missing the anti-authoritarian streak that was so formative in the early computer industry.
  • garyrob31 minutes ago
    This goes back a LONG way for me. I really enjoyed his Notes From The Field column in InfoWorld, which was both reliably funny and reliably interesting, from around 1987-1995.
  • tptacek6 hours ago
    Neat, maybe he can do a followup on how OrangeDAO X Press Start Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs is going.
  • brk7 hours ago
    Skimming through his posts he was also “back” to writing in 2023. Looks like he wrote 2 things then. Maybe he’ll do a longer run this time, maybe a good half dozen posts before another 3 year break?
  • thought_alarm7 hours ago
    It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
  • geocrasher8 hours ago

       memories of slashdot rush in
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  • trollbridge7 hours ago
    Okay, bunch of memories came back of getting PBS's online presence going on AvantGo (one of the predecessors to "mobile web") and getting I, Cringely's column hosted on it...

    Edit: some of these are still up there!

    http://feeds.pbs.org/pbs/cringely/pulpit-audio

  • UncleOxidant6 hours ago
    From reading that it seems that he and his crew are working on an AI chip?
  • wewewedxfgdf5 hours ago
    Including all the mentally unwell people/trolls in the comments who have become obsessed with Bob's Minecraft server project that did not work out.

    Their righteous indignation will valiantly carry forth forever! Let them never stop obsessing! "But it matters!" "It's really important!" "He's a liar, and boy our society is collapsing because of liars!". Urghh. They are in the comments here too, riding high white horses.

    • calmbonsaian hour ago
      Projects fail all the time. It happens.

      It’s simply inexcusable (and criminally fraudulent in many jurisdictions) to lie about your academic credentials—especially when it involves other people’s money.

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    • arvid-lind4 hours ago
      Sure, it's interesting there are still people out there who want to put him in his place or whatever. I think most people understand that's why you don't lie about the things like I've just learned this guy has. Especially if you depend on your name for your livelihood. or in this case, it's a pseudonym?

      Maybe they should get over it but IMO everyone should pick their battles carefully, and just because it looks like they aren't doesn't mean it's worth your time. It's Mr. Cringely's cross to bear.

      • wewewedxfgdf2 hours ago
        You can choose not to join the Internet outrage machine. That's a personal choice you can make.

        You can choose instead to just enjoy the work and shrug at the terrible injustices and unbelievably bad behavior the trolls want to manipulate you to be mad about, multiplying their power. You don't have to obey the trolls when they instruct you that "this person is a liar!", and "what about the minecraft server!".

        • arvid-lind2 hours ago
          I don't know what you mean by obeying trolls. Just forget it.
  • baal80spam8 hours ago
    I absolutely loved his "Triumph of the nerds" trilogy. It's my childhood!
    • suprjami8 hours ago
      Me too!

      I have a list of similar content here:

      https://github.com/superjamie/lazyweb/wiki/General-Tech-Ente...

      Haven't updated it in a long time but hope you find something nice.

      • vibbix5 hours ago
        Thank you for sharing this! Its always fun to realize when either friends or fellow nerds happen to share a MASSIVE intersection of entertainment.
    • linguae7 hours ago
      I would love to see a follow-up series that covers the dot com bust, the revival of Silicon Valley’s tech industry thanks to mobile and cloud tech, and the modern AI boom, starting with deep neural networks ran on GPUs and culminating with large language models.
  • kittikitti2 hours ago
    This reading like an em-dash enthusiast wrote it.
  • lorecore6 hours ago
    He's best known for Triumph of the Nerds but I really liked Plane Crazy, where he tries to build an airplane while basically having a breakdown:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164814/

  • homarp8 hours ago
    <insert minecraft server kickstarter joke>
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  • calmbonsai8 hours ago
    Oh this guy who lied about his Masters Degree. No thank you.
    • TruffleLabs7 hours ago
      For clarity, he has a master's degree, not a Ph.D.

      Via NYTime Nov. 16, 1998 article "Compressed Data; Stanford Gave Writer A Start, but Not a Ph.D." -

      "The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that Mr. Stephens had not been a professor at Stanford University and had not earned a doctorate there, as he had claimed."

      "A university spokeswoman said that Mr. Stephens had worked as a teaching assistant and earned only a master's degree."

      https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/16/business/compressed-data-...

      • calmbonsaian hour ago
        Thanks for your research and correction of my error.
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