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A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work
How in 1982, the author successfully hacked his way out of having to fill in potholes.
Mad Ned
May 19, 2021
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Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit!
A corporate tale of greed, desperation, and the power of expectations. And a little bit about Capacitors.
Mad Ned
Apr 16, 2021
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An Old Hacker's Tips On Staying Employed
#1: Don't Be a Jerk. (That is just a bonus tip, in case you don't want to read past the subtitle)
Mad Ned
Aug 11, 2021
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The Enemy Within
How internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
Mad Ned
May 26, 2021
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Holy Nonads! A Nine-Bit Computer!
The first nerdy dispatch from my Quixotic Hardware Project, QIXOTE-1
Mad Ned
Feb 9, 2022
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The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
The man who invented the interactive fiction genre talks about its past and future.
Mad Ned
Nov 24, 2021
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The Dead Code Diaries
When you find a weird program from four decades ago and realize that it's yours.
Mad Ned
Sep 22, 2021
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Black Hat Exploits of the Stupid-Easy '80s
I'm not saying there was no computer security in the 1980's but, wait... Yes. Yes I am.
Mad Ned
Jun 30, 2021
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Thin Pipe, Part I
No corporate parables or historical insights this week, just the odd and sometimes amusing tale of the author's multi-decade quest for internet…
Mad Ned
May 6, 2021
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The Sunny Side of Firing Someone
The Worst Work Event Doesn't Have to Have the Worst Outcomes
Mad Ned
Mar 12, 2022
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A Talk With Computer Gaming Pioneer Walter Bright About Empire
Our discussion on the creation of the great-granddaddy of all computer wargames
Mad Ned
Oct 20, 2021
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ASCII Double-Murder
There are Eight Million Stories in the SubStack City. Let's Read Two Of Them.
Mad Ned
Mar 16, 2022
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