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2022 8

  1. ASCII Double-Murder
  2. The Sunny Side of Firing Someone
  3. Holy Nonads! Yet Another Nine-Bit Article!
  4. Holy Nonads, Part 000 000 010
  5. Holy Nonads! A Nine-Bit Computer!
  6. Internal Success Before External Success
  7. Always Mount A Scratch Monkey!
  8. The Eternal Joy of "Hello World!"

2021 45

  1. Memo Rewind |< 20:21
  2. Good CRAGILE: Crappy Agile That Works!
  3. The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
  4. Coming Wednesday: A Chance to Talk with Text Adventure Game Pioneer Scott Adams!
  5. Two Things I Learned When I Crash Landed at a Startup
  6. When The "R" Goes Missing From R&D
  7. What Heathkit Taught Me About Good UX Design
  8. Why I Miss Working in the Crappiest Places
  9. A Talk With Computer Gaming Pioneer Walter Bright About Empire
  10. Wardialing and Other Phoney Stuff
  11. Old Memories 2: Magnetic Boogaloo!
  12. Being Not-So-Bad at Bad Reviews
  13. The Dead Code Diaries
  14. The Value Of Screwing Around At Work
  15. Memo Rewind |< 00:01
  16. How Many Bits Will Make You Happy?
  17. The Coming Age of "Natural Ned"
  18. Trash Eighties: Radio Shack's Golden Years
  19. Vendor, Vidi, Vici!
  20. An Old Hacker's Tips On Staying Employed
  21. What's In Store?
  22. The KISS of Death!
  23. What You Learn About Management in 48 Hours
  24. A Teenager's Guide to Workplace Ethics
  25. General Expert, Major Havoc
  26. Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy '80s
  27. The Ephemeral Nature Of Tech
  28. Memo Rewind |< 00:00
  29. When We All Pretended We Had Computers
  30. The Case for the Liberal Arts Programmer
  31. Gaming 004: Pirates of the 7 CDs
  32. Demo Roulette
  33. The Enemy Within
  34. A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work
  35. Thin Pipe, Part II
  36. Thin Pipe, Part I
  37. Gaming 003: Show Me Your Bits!
  38. The Limitations Paradox
  39. Constrain Yourself!
  40. Gaming 002: Attack of the Arcade Era!
  41. Bonus/Incentive Program Discussion
  42. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit!
  43. Gaming 001: Pizza, Fried Dough, Bells, and Video
  44. But First, a Message from Grampy...
  45. A journey through the past three or four decades of computer games, engineering, hacking, and other sundries.