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- tjansen 6小时前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 :(
- robterrell 2小时前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.
- tptacek 5小时前Neat, maybe he can do a followup on how OrangeDAO X Press Start Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs is going.
- brk 6小时前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_alarm 6小时前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.
- raugustinus 6小时前Dang we're getting old ey?
- rglover 4小时前Not old. Experienced.
- jmspring 3小时前I’m not going to be able to find the reference in my head, but I thought there had been a couple Bob’s over the years.
The descent into IBM hiring/etc is when I sort of last stopped reading.
- zoenolan 3小时前
- geocrasher 6小时前
memories of slashdot rush in - trollbridge 5小时前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!
- UncleOxidant 4小时前From reading that it seems that he and his crew are working on an AI chip?
- wewewedxfgdf 4小时前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.
- calmbonsai 33分钟前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.
- arvid-lind 2小时前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.
- wewewedxfgdf 1小时前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-lind 1小时前I don't know what you mean by obeying trolls. Just forget it.
- kittikitti 1小时前This reading like an em-dash enthusiast wrote it.
- baal80spam 7小时前I absolutely loved his "Triumph of the nerds" trilogy. It's my childhood!
- suprjami 6小时前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.
- vibbix 3小时前Thank you for sharing this! Its always fun to realize when either friends or fellow nerds happen to share a MASSIVE intersection of entertainment.
- linguae 6小时前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.
- ChrisArchitect 6小时前Link to actual post: https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/21/im-writing-again/
- lorecore 5小时前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:
- homarp 7小时前<insert minecraft server kickstarter joke>
- zingababba 6小时前[flagged]
- calmbonsai 6小时前Oh this guy who lied about his Masters Degree. No thank you.
- TruffleLabs 6小时前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-...
- calmbonsai 31分钟前Thanks for your research and correction of my error.