desk so messy that my lamp is teaching ghosts how to move my mouse to solve their own murders

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be honest, your desk has probably looked like this at some point and there's a 50/50 chance it still does

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seeing just the upper 20% of someone's photo of their desk, and mistaking it for a cropped screenshot of the junkyard scene from Ghost Trick

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Due to illness, I was unable to present at INIT HELLO 2026. In this thread I will post my slides and what I was planning to say about them.

COPY OF A COPY: How I set out to fix a 40-year-old bug in Copy II Plus and ended up rebuilding the entire application (and fixing the bug)

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#AppleII #retrocomputing

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This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?

I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.

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