Travel
- Mar 17, 2025: AirBnB weekend from hell
- Jul 24, 2019: Istanbul, Day 1
- Jul 23, 2019: Armando's Hamamı Experience
- Jul 22, 2019: Istanbul Arrival
- Jun 26, 2016: Baltics 2016 wrap-up
- Jun 13, 2016: Baltics 2016 part 4: Vilnius
- Jun 13, 2016: Baltics 2016 part 3: Riga
- Jun 13, 2016: Baltics 2016 part 2: Tallinn
- Jun 13, 2016: Baltics 2016 part 1: Welcome to Helsinki!
- Jun 19, 2015: The Baker coffin is a metaphor
- May 24, 2015: How to visit San Francisco
- Jun 07, 2014: Mumbai village tour
- Jun 07, 2014: Bombay Bicycle Club
- Jun 06, 2014: Mumbai day 1
- Jun 05, 2014: Travel and I on Indian Railways
- Jun 03, 2014: Hyderabad day 3: Heritage walk
- Jun 02, 2014: Hyderabad day 2: Chowmahalla Palace and Charminar (Hyderabad old city)
- Jun 01, 2014: Hyderabad day 1: Golconda Fort and Al-Qutb Tombs
- May 30, 2014: SFO to Dubai to Hyderabad
- Mar 22, 2014: A Day in Otavalo, Ecuador
- Jul 11, 2013: How I got my MIT 6.004 nerd kit past airport security
- Jun 01, 2013: The Great Wall
- Jun 01, 2013: Online education event at Tsinghua University
- Jun 01, 2013: Un billon, indeed
- Jun 01, 2013: We're here, Beijing's pretty big, and I don't eat that part of the duck
- Nov 20, 2010: Armando's "Only in New York" for visitors
- Jan 16, 2007: Today I am a birder
- Nov 01, 2002: Visiting Hong Kong, August 18-23, 2002
Retro
- Jan 11, 2023: Machines that took away jobs but I think it's OK
- Nov 29, 2017: Vanishing GenX
- Apr 21, 2017: "Damaged" by BASIC
- Mar 19, 2017: Learn programming by gamifying? How about by reading?
- Mar 11, 2017: From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video, and Videoland
- Mar 07, 2017: The CRT is dead, long live the CRT
- Jun 19, 2015: The Baker coffin is a metaphor
- Jun 08, 2010: A good first programming language, revisited
- Apr 27, 2010: Playback Twitter feeds (with icons!) on Apple //e!
- Aug 16, 2007: The original, original Adventure urtext has been found!
Tech history
- Jan 11, 2023: Machines that took away jobs but I think it's OK
- Oct 16, 2020: Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
- Oct 05, 2019: A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
- Oct 21, 2017: Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
- Apr 21, 2017: "Damaged" by BASIC
- Mar 19, 2017: Learn programming by gamifying? How about by reading?
- Mar 07, 2017: The CRT is dead, long live the CRT
- Aug 13, 2016: Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
- Jun 08, 2010: A good first programming language, revisited
- Aug 16, 2007: The original, original Adventure urtext has been found!
Gadgets
- Nov 25, 2012: Kindle Fire -- probably good enough
- Apr 10, 2012: The Kindle Fire's UI is an embarrassing abject failure
- Jun 17, 2009: My new Kindle DX: the good, the bad, the executive summary
- Jun 12, 2009: TiVo’s “video on demand” UI was designed by vandals in the 80’s
- Jun 10, 2009: Gov. Schwarzenegger calls for open-source digital textbooks in CA; I hope he means e-books
- Jun 02, 2009: Can retrocomputing bring computer-aided learning to the other 90%?
- May 08, 2009: Kindle DX & the textbook & news industries
- Jul 10, 2008: My journey to buying a Kindle back in 2008
Education
- Nov 15, 2022: An open letter to Heroku regarding the end of free micro-plans
- Feb 16, 2022: On competency-based learning
- Jun 09, 2021: The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us
- Feb 12, 2018: The Hacking of the American Mind
- Jan 06, 2018: Course Evaluations and the Jedi
- Dec 15, 2017: Holiday Reading 2017
- Mar 25, 2016: Five slim books about teaching
- May 31, 2015: Should you self-publish? Should anybody?
- Oct 06, 2014: Impressions on judging a Hackathon
- May 22, 2014: MOOC 1.0: a transitional form
- May 21, 2014: Separating scalable and non-scalable elements in CS education
- May 08, 2014: Gallup poll: how your college experience affects fulfillment & well-being at work
- Dec 20, 2013: A demoralizing semester for instructors
- Dec 02, 2013: Rethinking the format of a software engineering textbook
- Jul 11, 2013: How I got my MIT 6.004 nerd kit past airport security
- Mar 23, 2012: Made it to Spring Break, things still holding together!
- Mar 08, 2012: The downside of online education
- Mar 05, 2012: Week 3: No disasters yet
- Feb 21, 2012: Apprehensive, but inspired by Jennifer Widom’s blog. (And no, the book isn’t free.)
- Feb 15, 2012: Ready..set...d'oh
- Jan 28, 2012: CS169 x 50,000 = ?
- Dec 02, 2009: I’d like to disabuse early-career grad students of certain misconceptions...
- Jun 10, 2009: Gov. Schwarzenegger calls for open-source digital textbooks in CA; I hope he means e-books
- Jun 02, 2009: Can retrocomputing bring computer-aided learning to the other 90%?
Book summary
- Feb 16, 2025: Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform
- Dec 29, 2022: Minitel: Welcome to the Internet
- Jun 08, 2022: Medieval Writers and Their Work
- Apr 24, 2022: They're Playing Our Song
- Feb 16, 2022: On competency-based learning
- Nov 04, 2021: Two books on developing regions: The Forgotten Continent, White Man's Burden
- Sep 30, 2021: The Economy of Cities
- Aug 23, 2021: Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
- Jun 09, 2021: The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us
- Oct 16, 2020: Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine
- Oct 05, 2019: A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable
- Dec 13, 2018: Radical Cities
- Feb 12, 2018: The Hacking of the American Mind
- Dec 15, 2017: Holiday Reading 2017
- Oct 21, 2017: Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
- Mar 13, 2017: The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century
- Mar 13, 2017: The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
- Mar 13, 2017: America in the Seventies
- Mar 11, 2017: From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video, and Videoland
- Nov 26, 2016: Holiday Reading 2016
- Aug 13, 2016: Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
- Mar 25, 2016: Five slim books about teaching
- Aug 13, 2010: Armando's Summer Reading 2010
Pop culture
- Mar 13, 2017: The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century
- Mar 13, 2017: The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
- Mar 13, 2017: America in the Seventies
- Mar 11, 2017: From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video, and Videoland
- Mar 07, 2017: The CRT is dead, long live the CRT
- Feb 08, 2015: Where's the low-cost Munchery?