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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • If you had these books plus maybe one more about assembly programming you knew pretty much everything there was to know about the C-64. No stacks, frameworks, abstractions, etc, etc. There’s a part of me that is really nostalgic for this era of programming.

    On the other hand, with the C-64 I only ever got so far. I was really isolated back then. I only had one other programmer friend and when he moved away I had nobody to share my enthusiasm with, and I hit some roadblocks with the programs I was trying to write, and it just kinda fizzled away until the Web and higher-level languages made things easier and forums and search engines let me connect with people.



  • Hello world! I spend my work days logged in to some servers which if I interpret mtr correctly are just up the hill from SDF in Tukwila. I joined SDF in 2010 after watching SMJ’s interview on the BBS Documentary. It’s neat to be able to log in to this living UNIX system and type w and see a bunch of other people logged in doing their thing whatever that is.

    I’ve been a Reddit user since almost the beginning - my carefully curated set of subreddits have been my favorite way to follow my interests over the years. I love old.reddit’s clunkiness and information density. I’m intrigued by decentralization and federation and think it would be cool to move away from the big silos.