In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn’t very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people. As a teenager, this was the first software that I wrote that other people used. This was my contribution to “the scene” and now my only claim…
One of my first sound cards was a Sound Blaster, which was pretty mindblowing when all you had heard before it was an IBM PC speaker.
When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren’t going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a credit card number and I told them I had to find my wallet and call them back.
Have you played WORDLE yet? It’s a clever word game that’s basically Mastermind with 5-letter words.
Every day I make a cup of coffee, organize a list of the things I want to do that day, and try to work through it. Every time I finish one of the tasks, I mark it as complete. By the end of the day, ideally there are no things left on the list, but if there are, I’ll move them into a backlog and start fresh the next day.
It was just announced a few days ago that if you were vaccinated in California, you can get a digital copy of your vaccination record in the form of a QR code by going to the Digital COVID-19 Vaccine Record portal. The QR code looks like this:
Instagram recently showed me an ad for a dedicated mute button for Zoom, which seemed a little too on the nose.
In the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, John Connor uses a laptop to crack the PIN of a stolen debit card.
If you work in tech, you probably have a YubiKey. I have this one, the YubiKey 5C Nano:
I’ve been cooking a lot more during the pandemic which means that I’ve been following a lot of online recipes and they all start with some long story on the history of fish sauce. Basically what I’m saying is if you just want to read about how to cheat at Animal Crossing and you’re still on v1.2.0b or lower, you can skip down to here.