Kodsnack 258 - Object-oriented assembly with Marco Ceccione

Recorded at Øredev 2017, Fredrik talks to Marco Ceccione about the ZX Spectrum, positive hacking (the only kind there is!), the benefits of getting closer to the metal and finally balancing coding and management.

Marco is an engineering manager at Toptal. Before that, he worked at Stack overflow, where, among other things, he wrote object-oriented assembly to solve real-wold problems on a huge scale. Yes, that’s a real thing, discussion and links explains it all.

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Marco Ceccioni
Marco’s Øredev presentation about the ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum
BIOS
EFI
Right to repair
Arduino
MSIL
Russell’s barber
Toptal - where Marco works
Grafana
Doctor Dobb’s articles on writing Quake

Titles

I was presenting this very very old computer
Take the train and go to Milan
Disassembling code by hand
A very hands-on period
Supremely hackable
First repair it, then write some software for it
Object-oriented assembly
Ultimately, you have to code for the machine
Hacking is always positive
If they break, we don’t fix them