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The best nights I remember from my 20s were late night hacking sessions.

No alcohol (or friends) required.

Joe Rogan interviewed John Carmack. Does that count?

Booomberg has that same “API key” problem. It really requires an institutional procurement and legal team to get all the market data feeds you need.

I’d buy that!

It’s not complicated, you kids are just spoiled.

JavaScript I was paid to write in 1995 had a shelf life of 6 months given Netscape’s release schedule and I had to compete on performance with Delphi 3 native compiled code.

If you think web development is too complicated these days, you should just dump it all and write cgi scripts in Perl again.

Or if you’re an academic, Smalltalk + Seaside.

If there is a problem with modern web development, it is the curse of too much choice. Focus on your end goal, and the choices available will become a blessing, not a curse.

You’re not crazy, they’re all crazy!

I miss when default username/password combos like admin/admin and root/“” would let you log in to a solid 5% of internet and Telenet (RIP) connected hosts.

I miss building everything from scratch, in assembly, because I could do it better than the libraries that shipped with the system.

I can still do it better today, but the stack is so deep now, I just don’t have the time.

Would I go back if I could? Nah.

Hacking is a blast, but never forget it is to achieve a greater purpose. A greater purpose for our software’s users, for ourselves, and for for our subroutines.

Old hackers never die— we merely gosub without return.