desk so messy that my lamp is teaching ghosts how to move my mouse to solve their own murders
be honest, your desk has probably looked like this at some point and there's a 50/50 chance it still does
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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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.
He/him. Puzzle-Adventure Hybrid with RPG Elements. Supports 3D Acceleration. He Is Essentially What He Believes. Just in case, π, LGBTQ+ π, DOS π, ππ©π.
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