No. 0061 min read
I shipped BBS doors at thirteen. Yes, actual software.
At thirteen I shipped shareware doors for the Mac Hermes II BBS, written in THINK Pascal.
Older issues
Page 3 of 3. Still shocking.
No. 0051 min read
130 switches, thousands of rules, and a manual that didn't know
Migrating 130 switches off Marconi CEOS meant translating thousands of billing rules without a usable spec.
No. 0041 min read
Two hundred and fifty percent. Yes, folks, it was Perl.
Sprint's mediation throughput went up 250% with Perl, Oracle SQL, and five processor chains.
No. 0032 min read
Never post twice. Yes, even when I run the damned thing twice.
grime95.com posts daily fiction to a website, Facebook and Instagram.
No. 0021 min read
Billing mediation: somebody has to find the damned money
Fourteen years between the switch and the bill, finding missing money in binary records.
No. 0012 min read
Twenty-five years of corkscrew. All 291 damned lines.
I wrote 291 lines of C to get SSH through a corporate proxy in 2000.