History

My first interesting job was as a student systems administrator for a fairly heterogenous group of UNIX servers. For the first many months, I was essentially a clever interface to an array of search engines. I came to have a great appreciation for the common phenomenon of a detailed solution to a very specific problem, laid out beautifully in the personal site of someone I’d never met. I answered a lot of “how on Earth did you figure that out?” with “somebody on the Internet wrote about it”.