Re:Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
by bandrami on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:49PM
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Huh. I graduated from there and about a third of my class (including me) works in tech in some form. Though being a sysadmin seems to be more common than being a programmer. But I had no idea the Wesnoth dev went there too!
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Re:Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
by setgree on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:58PM
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Did you do a coding bootcamp or such?
Re:Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
by bandrami on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @01:45AM
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No, the email system was a Unix server you telneted to from the Mac SEs in the computer lab so I just kind of picked up Unix usage. Then once I graduated I got a job tending a BIND and sendmail cluster for a local ISP (the "training" was handing me the Cricket book and the Bat book on the first day). The jaw-dropping salary for that was $22K at the time (this was the 90s; about $46K in today's money). That led to learning Perl (via the Camel book) to automate some of the tasks, which led to some CGI work, but I've never really been a "programmer" per se, always a sysadmin.