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I was somewhat wrong about ATProto. The protocol decoupling mostly holds. I still do not trust it 100%, and the asterisks are where I live now.
In 2019, a Discord bot crashed on Java 12. The crash was in the JDK itself. I was 18.
In software, the generalist is your best engineer. The one who hedges in public, asks dumb questions, and somehow ships everything by Friday.
Twelve years on Nano because Vim fails my 3am-flu test. Micro is what I should have been using the whole time, and Ctrl+Q quits it.
SQL survived every replacement attempt not because it won, but because its challengers attacked the wrong layer.
I learned about Hamachi because I was ten and wanted to play Minecraft with someone. In 2026, I went down a rabbit hole and found out it was more interesting than it had any right to be.
My website had an intermittent ten-second stall that hit every device in my city at once, survived a full backend swap, and could not be reproduced on demand. The only fix Cloudflare offered was a support tier I would have to pay for, on a domain I had bought from them.
I wanted to remap one key on my new keyboard. To do that, I read 25,000 lines of 8051 assembly.
Windows 8 was correct. Metro was correct. Microsoft saw convergence before anyone and got laughed off the stage for it. Fifteen years later Valve and Google are eating the lunch Microsoft left on the counter.
640,000 hostile requests, Claude hacking BSD and FFmpeg, and the expensive realization that my router is on borrowed time.