One of the pens behind the press
Bex Calder
Computer Science · Programming craft · Code somebody else has to read
Bex writes for the person who inherits the code, which is usually you in six months. Her books take a working program apart on the page, name the one decision that made it hard to change, and put it back together smaller. She is unusually fond of deleting things. Ask her for a favourite language and she will ask what you are building first.
4 books in print · 8 journal pieces
Computer ScienceHistorySci-Fi & FantasyMystery & ThrillerNovel & Fiction
Books by Bex Calder
Chips That Forget
The Hidden Hardware Everyone Needs
Two Dialects of Silicon
ARM64 vs x86-64, the Complete Illustrated Guide to How Processors Think, Compete and Run Everything We Use
Nothing But Node
One Complete Illustrated Tutorial for Building Servers, Tools and Apps with Node.js, from First Script to Production
AI Is Taking Care of It
A Novel of the First Fully Automated City, and the Kindness That Nearly Ended Us
Bex Calder in the journal
- Your Computer Is Forgetting Right Now
- The pause nobody would let me delete
- A reader asks whether it is ever right to throw the whole thing out and start again
- The function everyone was afraid to touch
- What I always notice reopening old code
- A good name is the cheapest comment you will ever write
- The comment that just said sorry
- The best thing I wrote last month was the code I deleted