Brian 'Beej Jorgensen' Hall's home page
Visit beej.us → On Hacker News Jul 2022 – Jul 2026
Software Engineering 2Web & Frontend 1Networking & Internet 1AI & Machine Learning 1
TLDR: I gain a lot of fulfillment by making things. I don't consider things built by others at my request to be made by me, and are therefore much less fulfilling. And then I feel sad. This article starts strong and then heads off into the weeds.
I hate ads. I also hate tracking and bloat. But I didn't actually hate the latter quite enough to get rid of Disqus for comments. It was a free, good service, and you could turn off ads for the users (which I did).
That is the first line of the 80s microcomputer BASIC game The Wizard's Castle initially written for the Exidy Sorcerer platform.