“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have cellphones, pagers are the norm; dial-up modems screech and scream to connect you an internet without Google, Facebook, or YouTube; Dolly has not yet been cloned; the first Playstation is the cutting edge in gaming technology; the Human Genome Project is creeping along; Mir...

“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have cellphones, pagers are the norm; dial-up modems screech and scream to connect you an internet without Google, Facebook, or YouTube; Dolly has not yet been cloned; the first Playstation is the cutting edge in gaming technology; the Human Genome Project is creeping along; Mir...

After a decade you ended up managing a team, no longer able to spend time on the one thing you wanted to do most: writing code. Your job became taking young programmers who love what they do and extracting their souls, motivating them to follow the same path you did. — Scott C. Reynolds, Dream Jobs That You’re Glad You Didn’t Pursue

After a decade you ended up managing a team, no longer able to spend time on the one thing you wanted to do most: writing code. Your job became taking young programmers who love what they do and extracting their souls, motivating them to follow the same path you did. — Scott C. Reynolds, Dream Jobs That You’re Glad You Didn’t Pursue

Three blips of activity of my Github: I’ve made bmtu output the actual Twitter API error message, if it’s returned in the JSON. I’ve created a new repository for my old 48K Spectrum build environment. I’m tempted to dust this off and play a bit more with it over the break, maybe even on my real 48K. I’ve scanned the dregs of my old blog and...

Three blips of activity of my Github: I’ve made bmtu output the actual Twitter API error message, if it’s returned in the JSON. I’ve created a new repository for my old 48K Spectrum build environment. I’m tempted to dust this off and play a bit more with it over the break, maybe even on my real 48K. I’ve scanned the dregs of my old blog and...

Hoping that something is true doesn’t make it true. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts. — Ricky Gervais, Why I’m an Atheist

Hoping that something is true doesn’t make it true. The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts. — Ricky Gervais, Why I’m an Atheist

kung fu grippe: The Big Difference: I loathe what Nick Denton’s malignant version of success has done to a medium I used to treasure. […] Thing is, apart from head size, soul blackness, and national origin, that’s really the big difference between Nick and normal people. Normal people’s reaction to bad news is to say, “Oh, man. That sucks. I’m...

kung fu grippe: The Big Difference: I loathe what Nick Denton’s malignant version of success has done to a medium I used to treasure. […] Thing is, apart from head size, soul blackness, and national origin, that’s really the big difference between Nick and normal people. Normal people’s reaction to bad news is to say, “Oh, man. That sucks. I’m...

Have you talked to your kids about zombies? (I spent far too much time on this, and I think poor typography ruins an otherwise poor idea.) Source Image

Have you talked to your kids about zombies? (I spent far too much time on this, and I think poor typography ruins an otherwise poor idea.) Source Image

My first published code in quite a long time, bmtu. I like reading my old notebooks, I did that recently with my physical notebooks, but nothing serves as a nearly-real-time diary of my life in the same way that my Twitter account does. However, the public Twitter site isn’t really a permanent store for that information: it may disappear over...

My first published code in quite a long time, bmtu. I like reading my old notebooks, I did that recently with my physical notebooks, but nothing serves as a nearly-real-time diary of my life in the same way that my Twitter account does. However, the public Twitter site isn’t really a permanent store for that information: it may disappear over...

The Proceeds (by Tobias Lunchbreath)