Musings of a 60 year old Tech Daddy
Well, I just celebrated the completion of 60 years on this planet.
That’s me on the left with the glasses. I use this picture, because my brother Stephan and I (on the right) started our first company ‘Adamation’ back in 1984. We were wild eyed, and ambitious, living in Silicon Valley, trying to make it big. Well, we didn’t become an Adobe, but we held our own, and our early journey is documented in the Computer History Museum of Silicon Valley: https://computerhistory.org/blog/meet-the-adams-brothers/
That history piece was done quite some time ago, and the story kind of leaves off with my time at Microsoft. But wait, there’s more…
This post is about reflections on roughly 48 years of coding, and being a ‘Technologist’ and ‘Futurist’.
Mastering SVG: The Paint-Order Attribute Explained
You would think that in this age of generative AI, that going deep into a subject is no longer en vogue. I mean, when you’ve got copilot and ChatGPT at your finger tips, aren’t you just supposed to prompt your way to coding nirvana?
Well, us humans still have something to offer to the intellectual pursuits of programming. I’m going to explore one such case in point. I will use the rendering of .svg as a backdrop. This is kinda technical, so if you’re not into that, you might want to avert your eyes now.