In 2007, I wanted to start a blog to release some of the software and videogame side projects I had begun developing in college (at the time, a Kernel Panic Sc

In 2007, I wanted to start a blog to release some of the software and videogame side projects I had begun developing in college (at the time, a Kernel Panic Screen Saver for the Mac and Cursorcerer, a Mac system tool for hiding the cursor with a hotkey) . A friend of mine sent me a piece of php code he'd written that would spit out a huge list of 2-word pairs chosen at random from an English dictionary. I scanned through this huge vertical list of word outputs, and the pair "doom laser" instantly stuck out to me. That sounds cool! A few hours later, http://doomlaser.com http://doomlaser.com was born, and I snagged https://twitter.com/doomlaser https://twitter.com/doomlaser as well. I'm still updating Cursorcerer. It continues to run in macOS Ventura, and it has been downloaded on the order of a hundred thousand times. People are still downloading it from the same blog entry I wrote for it in 2007 :) The friend who wrote the word pairing program is one of the co-founders of Rogue Amoeba, though I've never asked if it was the source of the name of their company.