I got into computers because they were amazing devices that I could make do things. I have no interest in hardware, other than using it to write software. Tec

I got into computers because they were amazing devices that I could make do things. I have no interest in hardware, other than using it to write software. Tech magazines are reference materials, and as such, aren't all that interesting. Professionally, I managed to combine my academic and hacker interests into spending decades making software that others can use to do THEIR work: solve problems, understand Nature, ...