22 July 2020

Origin Story

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

tilde.team

Project Gemini but you knew that already

Lobste.rs on Gemini

Classic Unix source code, the antidote to my feeling that operating systems are mysterious

Lions's also-classic commentary on that source code, specifically V6, though I used it well enough to study V7