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generating a startpage of links for my static site with AWS Read More »

'What are those television-typewriters, anyway?', asks the cover of The Personal Computer Book. I plucked this off the shelves of my local Goodwill a few weeks ago and finally got around to cracking it open. It's entertaining, both in the author's writing and illustrations and how dated and/or accurate it is, as well as informative, with many historical tidbits on computing I'd never learned before. Read More »

Some thoughts about the upcoming year, reflection on the past year, and goals for 2022. Read More »

On King of the Ball from *Just for Fun* by Linus Torvalds. Read More »

On Birth of a Nerd and Birth of an Operating System from *Just for Fun* by Linus Torvalds. Read More »

On some more of Eric S. Raymond's Essays Read More »

On some of Eric S. Raymond's Essays Read More »

On More of Paul Graham's Essays from Hackers and Painters Read More »

On 4 of Paul Graham's Essays from Hackers and Painters Read More »

In part 3 of Levy's *Hackers*, we learn about the rise of the computer gaming industry. Read More »

MIT hackers and hacker culture (part 2 of *Hackers - Heroes of the Computer Revolution* by Steve Levy.) Read More »

What are 'True Hackers' ? Am I one ? Read More »

Some thoughts about the upcoming year, reflection on the past year, and goals for 2020. Read More »

Dotfiles for my Arch Linux build Read More »