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A few weeks ago I attended VCF West at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

I majored in Philosophy at UC Berkeley.

Discovered in a box in my dad’s garage, a clipping from the September 1993 issue of Parents magazine, titled “My husband prefers his computer to me”.

Woke up early yesterday morning.

My post about Apple’s “SillyBalls” example program had a loose end.

When you think of Apple, the company and its history, what images come to mind?

sneakernet: /snee·ker·net/, n.

TL;DR I ported GLFighters, a game written for Classic Mac OS in 2001, to WebAssembly!

Over the years, I’ve accumulated a few computer books, some of which sit on the top shelf of the bookcase behind my desk.

Wifi router ban I currently live in student family housing at the University of California, Berkeley.

Last week, I investigated an issue1 where iptables -L (the command to list firewall rules in Linux) took over 60 seconds to complete.

This is a follow-up to my previous post about some mysterious TCP connection timeouts in the UC Berkeley wired network.

For over a year, I’ve been investigating a strange issue with the internet in my apartment.

My first real tech job was as a test engineer at edX.

A few months ago, I found myself wondering how a command like ping 1.1.1.1 works from within a private network.

This morning, I saw the sad news that Bram Moolenaar passed away yesterday.

Why is the life of a mouse not absurd?

This post explains how to install K3s on Fedora CoreOS.

Sometimes at work I need to troubleshoot iptables rules in a Kubernetes cluster.

After nearly three years of development, aretext has reached version 1.0!

While working on aretext, I often need to lookup ASCII character codes.

Most integrated development environments let you quickly jump from a symbol to its definition.

Ingemar Ragnemalm first released the Sprite Animation Toolkit (SAT) in 1992.

The 0.7 release of aretext is now available!

The music teacher drove from school to school, carrying a leather bag and smelling like cigarettes.

This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting.

When I went to high school, things started disappearing.

Version 0.6 of aretext has been released!

This morning, I joined the eCHO livestream to chat about a feature I worked on for the Cilium 1.12 release!

KubeCon this year featured a panel discussion of IPv6 adoption.

A few weeks ago, I implemented syntax highlighting for markdown in aretext, the minimalist vim clone I’ve been building.

This is a story that begins with some code I wrote and ends with a rejection.

Vim was my preferred text editor for nearly eighteen years, until I switched to aretext in 2021.

Today marks the fifth release of aretext, the minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings!

It took nearly two years, but I finally built the homelab I always wanted.

This is the second post of a two-part series on Starcraft and late-90s networking.

Writing about multiplayer Starcraft reminded me how strange networking was in 1998.

I wanted to run the original Starcraft, released in 1998, on my Linux desktop using QEMU.

Starcraft was the first game I played online.

On Sunday, I presented a lightning talk at the FOSDEM 2022 conference.

No one types perfectly.

I tend to rewrite code.

Over twenty years ago, I wrote my first networked program, a multiplayer card game.

Update 2023-01-09: gospleunk has changed significantly since this post was written.

Starting a two week vacation today, so I’ve planned a small project: a Go-specific version of ctags.

I created an account on GitHub in December of 2012, which is almost exactly nine years ago.

After a long hiatus, I am rebooting this blog!

In the early 2000s, I joined a community of hobbyist Mac game developers at a site called idevgames.com.

For the past nine months, I have spent almost all of my free time working on a coding side project.

I have used the same laptop case for over sixteen years.