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Hello CoRecursive newsletter subscriber,
It’s October now, and I have a new episode out :
It’s the story of Paul Lutus, the Oregon hermit, who built software for the Apple II from his log cabin in the woods by kerosene lantern and eventually became rich and famous.
This is an episode I’ve been working on for a long time. I just knew that Paul had an amazing story and I wanted to make sure I gave it justice.
I came across Paul in a funny way. I made an ebook of popular articles on hacker news to read on my kindle. The idea was that I would hopefully find some interesting guests this way, but via some quirk of how I created the ebook, the articles were ordered oldest first. One of these old articles was from a 1983 issues of Atari Magazine and it began like this:
- “You may have heard about me. In the computer business I’m known as the Oregon Hermit”
I’m happy the episode is out now and I hope people find Paul as interesting as I did. Let me know what you think! I’ll be releasing some additional parts of my chat with Paul to my patreon supports.
Other Things I've been up to:
The last episode about quines got written up in The New Stack here. I also wrote a tutorial on awk for the beginner and I did an interview with Software Engineering Daily here about earthly and other command line tools.
Thanks,
Adam
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