The Art of Computers
summary
Thirty years of debugging yields concrete techniques: recover lost WAV files by copying the disk, inspecting 345 million bytes and repairing a zeroed file allocation table in a hex editor to restore recordings; fix a broken Raspberry Pi deploy after 13 hours by switching FTP to binary transfer to stop CR (0x0D) stripping; assemble an open source artificial pancreas using a Bluetooth CGM, insulin pump, phone, REST APIs and MongoDB so realtime blood sugar appears in a git prompt — and it works.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 2:29Art or science of computers
- 3:11Problem solving techniques
- 8:26Layering and complexity
- 12:40Composition and data modeling
- 18:17Pattern recognition in tech
- 22:14Open source and real-world applications
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