{"id":954,"date":"1945-12-10T00:06:08","date_gmt":"1945-12-10T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/?p=954"},"modified":"2019-12-02T11:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T19:05:44","slug":"about-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/about-mike\/","title":{"rendered":"About Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/about-mike\/photo-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1256\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-6-100x75.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Photo 6\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-6-100x75.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-6-200x150.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Photo-6.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been writing about technology full-time since I helped launch <em>InfoWorld<\/em> back in 1981. I co-wrote the seminal history of the personal computer, <a href=\"http:\/\/pragprog.com\/book\/fsfire\/fire-in-the-valley\">Fire in the Valley<\/a> (it was the basis for the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0168122\/\">Pirates of Silicon Valley<\/a>). I was editor-in-chief and then editor-at-large of <em>Dr. Dobb\u2019s Journal<\/em> forlikeever. I have been a columnist or editor for a <em>bunch<\/em> of computer magazines. Four different columns for <em>MacUser<\/em> alone. Model and scripter for an Italian comic strip. Co-wrote the Computer History entry in the online <em>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em>. For ten years edited and published a programmer&#8217;s magazine called <em><a href=\"http:\/\/theprosegarden.com\/\">PragPub<\/a><\/em>. I continue writing at my blog and elsewhere, and edit books for the Pragmatic Programmers. My partner Nancy Groth and I live on a wild and scenic river in Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been writing about technology full-time since I helped launch InfoWorld back in 1981. I co-wrote the seminal history of the personal computer, Fire in the Valley (it was the basis for the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley). I was editor-in-chief and then editor-at-large of Dr. Dobb\u2019s Journal forlikeever. I have been a columnist or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7336,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.swaine.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}