git gud

• receive text over the network

• render text into pixels

• mangle pixels through some convoluted Fourier transform to decrease quality

• run even more complex pattern matching algorithm on mangled pixels to guess text represented

Can we add AI somewhere down that line?

That’s just inverse South African notation.

Chicken chicken chicken

That’s what MS Teams code blocks and ChatOps are for.

Shouting in the Datacenter

My first programming related memory is of the QBasic interpreter.

I had written some code I was quite happy with, but not saved it yet. As part of a subroutine for sound output, I quickly wrote a loop from 20 to 20000 to output a test signal over 1 second each with that frequency via the PC speaker and hit execute.

Realizing my mistake, It being MS-DOS and thus single-threaded, I couldn’t Ctrl+C out of it without killing QBasic altogether and losing my code. I couldn’t turn town the PC speaker.

I ended up closing various doors between the PC and me and waiting it out.

For the glory of Satan, of course!