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22 July 2020
In reverse order, the story goes: this here glog <- tilde.team <- Gemini <- Lobste.rs <- a growing distaste for technical stacks that are taller than they need to be in terms of the number of components <- studying and appreciating Unix for a few months <- working in a software career for umpteen years and enjoying the terminal but never really digging beneath application-level API because you don't really have to except the OS is always down there making the cogs turn and it does give you a kick in the face once in a while <- giving Linux a chance in college but bouncing off of it due to insufficient interest to overcome the learning curve alone or figure out how to do it not-alone <- growing up playing PC games and therefore thinking it'd be cool to know how to make them someday <- by sheer luck, BBS exposure early in life
Project Gemini but you knew that already
Classic Unix source code, the antidote to my feeling that operating systems are mysterious