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jiwasz.bsky.social
@jiwasz.bsky.social
Architect | Cybersecurity | ex-Microsoft | Microsoft MVP
It still blows my mind that you could access CPU registers directly in QBasic. You can’t pull that rabbit out of C#.
August 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
If only more servers supported ocsp.
July 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
I had one of these with 3D Asteroids that required a headset with spinning red and blue filters. I watched a 3D screening of Jaws with those.
July 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Long live the new PowerShell.
April 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The TRS-80 was the first computer I encountered that remembered the time between reboots. It had a lithium watch battery. When we got a PC with an 286 processor, my father donated the TRS-80 to my elementary school. I was my school's first de facto comp sci teacher.
November 16, 2024 at 9:49 PM
That take me back. I had:

Vic-20
Commodore-64
Apple ][e
TRS-80
And a few Ataris I can’t recall clearly.
November 16, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Back in the early ‘00s, someone dressed as Clippy for the office Halloween party.
November 16, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Heck, I do code and started to write an import service. At under $5 to move my data, it’s worth it.
November 16, 2024 at 9:14 PM