@hardingar@mindly.social

I feel old. I am a former medieval historian turned tech pro in 1999.

I read Tanenbaum instead of going to 9 am networks lectures from a guy who had clearly not changed his notes in a decade in 1999.

I have also read K&R and the sysadmin book. I have argued in a bar with Tom Limocelli about the sysadmin book.

ESR has talked to my tits. RMS has blanked me (lucky escape).

Since the mid 2000s O’Reilly books are a mixxed bag but I like Alex Higalo’s SLO one for containing actual maths. My fave remains DNS & Bind.

Tech will never be as democratic to access again as it was when I did and more than 25 years later I am still judged for being not technical enough and too technical.

We need to fix this.

Ann H
@hardingar@mindly.social

I feel old. I am a former medieval historian turned tech pro in 1999.

I read Tanenbaum instead of going to 9 am networks lectures from a guy who had clearly not changed his notes in a decade in 1999.

I have also read K&R and the sysadmin book. I have argued in a bar with Tom Limocelli about the sysadmin book.

ESR has talked to my tits. RMS has blanked me (lucky escape).

Since the mid 2000s O’Reilly books are a mixxed bag but I like Alex Higalo’s SLO one for containing actual maths. My fave remains DNS & Bind.

Tech will never be as democratic to access again as it was when I did and more than 25 years later I am still judged for being not technical enough and too technical.

We need to fix this.

Ann H
@hardingar@mindly.social

You know you are on a proper swiss family holiday when a) you see parents on crutches and b) they strap the crutches to the side of the bike and still go up the mountain.