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the internet can still be fun! • https://t.co/e4X1aTyU9N • https://t.co/Zy1SZ8NsRz • https://t.co/I6eToBUSCc • alum @recursecenter @janestreetgroup
Feb 11 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
for a few days in 2006 nobody in high school could turn in homework and it was my fault

a little story about mail rules, teenage computer mischief, and good adults~ my high school used this funny thing called SWIS (the school-wide information system) that was something between an email client and a forum. We used it to send messages, turn in homework, and argue about politics.

it was a big part of student life! Image
Dec 17, 2024 • 34 tweets • 7 min read
That's a decade without a drink for me.

This is way outside my "whimsical games" lane, and I'm not planning to talk about this again.

But I'm going to share my story of addiction and recovery today, because I was so hungry for stories when I quit: A sobriety calculator. It shows that the author has been sober for 10 years, or 120 months, or 3654 days, or 87686 hours I don't actually know that December 17th is the day

I know that on December 20th cops showed up at my door. The few people still in my life hadn't heard from me in a month. I hadn't gone to work. My parents assumed I was dead and had asked the police to do a wellness check
Dec 6, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
how do you all remember every UUID? I find it really hard. so I wrote them all down on every uuid dot com

the list has fast search across all 2^122 values (so you can find your favorites) - hoping to add some social features like "trending UUIDs" soon! the site is over here: everyuuid.com and i wrote a blog about what i learned from making it over at eieio.games/blog/writing-d…. but i can capture a few fun things here:
Aug 29, 2024 • 34 tweets • 10 min read
At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB.... If you missed it, One Million Checkboxes was a website that had...one million checkboxes on it. The checkboxes were global - checking or unchecking a box checked it or unchecked it for everyone in the world immediately.

I thought it wouldn't get much attention; I was very wrong Image