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I've been wanting to get back into - blogging, journaling, whatever - for a
while now, but I have been hesitant.
I'd like to know that, perhaps, someone has gotten some benefit out of my crazy
ramblings, but I also don't want to self aggrandize. I want it to be anonymous,
but then I kind of don't.
Phloging down here in this gopher hole seems to be the perfect solution. No one
cares, yet there are a few people who do. It has a slight technical barrier to
entry, so those who would make it this far, have a real desire.
Back before the days of FANNG, I learned quite a bit off of [BBSs][0] and
[usenet][1]. There was one article in particular _Smashing the stack for fun and
Profit_ by _Cult of the Dead Cow_ that really sticks in my mind. I remember
stumbling upon it, reading it over and over, and feeling like I found a secret
tome. I have some fond memories of sifting though a bunch of those plain text
files finding nuggets of wisdom. I mean, really, I taught myself how to code
using that and the local library.
I don't think I will be writing anything as cool as the CDC, but I am going to
try to write about interesting things I discover on the remainder of travels.
At the moment I am working with WebGL, WebXR, Typescript, Javascript,
webassembly, golang, docker, kubernetes, and I am in a bit of a lead role at the
moment so I might talk about some people stuff every now and again.
We'll see how this goes.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet