Take A Tour Of The Hidden Language Of Hardware And How It Powers Your Code

<div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><h2>Summary</h2> <p>Software is eating the world, but that code has to have hardware to execute the instructions. Most people, and many software engineers, don&#8217;t have a proper understanding of how that hardware functions. Charles Petzold wrote the book &quot;Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software&quot; to make this a less opaque subject. In this episode he discusses what motivated him to revise that work in the second edition and the additional details that he packed in to explore the functioning of the CPU.</p> <h2>Announcements</h2> <ul> <li>Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great!</li> <li>When you&#8217;re ready to launch your next app or want to try a project you hear about on the show, you&#8217;ll need somewhere to deploy it, so take a look at our friends over at Linode. With their managed Kubernetes platform it&#8217;s easy to get started with the next...