Sumana Harihareswara on Nostr: reading old Usenet/email japery from , such as satire on how different programming ...
reading old Usenet/email japery from
https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/index.htm , such as satire on how different programming languages/databases/OSes allow you to shoot yourself in the foot, briefly evoked a sense memory of my first Silicon Valley job decades ago
the color of the light in Santa Clara, the configuration of the cubicle walls
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