About

- Format
- BMP · 24-bit
- Created
- ~1996
- Taken by
- Chris (most likely)
- Location
- the home office
- Subject
- that beige clone
I was six when I figured out computers would listen to me. Not because I was a prodigy. Because I was tired of my sisters asking me to launch their games.
I edited the batch file. The computer obeyed. That was it.
Forty years later I'm still chasing that feeling. The keyboards changed. The languages changed. The kid is older. But the click is the same.
By day I'm a privacy engineer focused on AI/LLM security. By night I'm making a text-driven horror game with my daughters. Voiced and scored. Two worlds. Plus articles about the old internet, and tending this site. A working museum of the decades that raised me.
Everything here is on purpose. The terminal that answers help. The 1999 mode. The easter eggs under the floorboards. If you found one, that wasn't an accident.
Thanks for being here. Worn keyboard and all.
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- React
- NestJS
- Python
- SQL
- DevOps
- Privacy Engineering
- AI/LLM Security
- Application Security
- Threat Modeling
- Secure SDLC
- Space Quest
- King's Quest
- EverQuest
- Magestorm
- Doom
- Hackers (1995)
- Sneakers
- WarGames
- The Net
- 9600 baud handshake
- AIM door slam
- ICQ uh oh
- Modem hangup
- AOL 3.0
- Photoshop 3.0
- QBasic
- Visual Basic 4.0
People who show up in my articles
Room 337 cast
dir /a *.cast- KAIZEVOXoldest · actor · my voice anchor
- SIDVOXvoice in the booth · keeps me honest
- SANDRAVOXvoice in the booth · the third pillar
- KATVOXyoungest · loudest reads · the heart of the studio
Family
dir /a *.fam- DADFAMEgghead Software runs · ran the .bat file
- SISTERSFAMthe .bat file customers · why I cracked it open
- GRANDPAFAMQBasic floppies in the mail · my first editor
The crew
dir /a *.usr- CHRISUSRweekends · creative chaos partner
- JAMESUSRphoenix.bas · taught me to step away
- GREGUSRswap meets · taught me product thinking