When the scold transitioned from "David Gewirtz" to "David Allen Gewirtz," I knew I was in trouble. To be fair, nothing prepared my nontechnical mom and dad to raise a future engineer.

Written by David Gewirtz, Senior Contributing Editor March 28, 2025 at 5:26 a.m. PT Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Spending money is easy. Keeping track of how much money you spend, not so much.

As David Gewirtz, ZDNET writer and a colleague of Atkinson, told me, "Pretty much if you move a pixel on screen graphically in any computer or device, anywhere, it's got Bill's DNA in it." ...