wrongcards

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by wrongcards 5mo ago
I've got friends who've helped, now and then. But all my friends are either too busy being successful in their career, or too fundamentally silly and unreliable. That said, I don't rule it out. It'd be a shame for the si
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by wrongcards 5mo ago
Hey, that's lovely, and I'm glad. I did simplify the ecard send/receive mechanism - there's been four or five different iterations of the app, and validating emails was nightmarish. As of a few months ago I just let peop
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by wrongcards 5mo ago
I've been running my side project - free ecards that are wrong for every occasion - ( https://wrongcards.com ) for eighteen years. I felt like the internet needed something like that, back in 2008. Back then, it was a tribute
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by wrongcards 6mo ago
I've read Graves' Lawrence and the Arabs (Ranulph Fiennes wrote a recent, new bio of Lawrence that I hear is worth reading), but not his work on the Western front. The most interesting military histories I've read concerned t
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Peter Thiel doesn't understand his favorite book(krisstgabriel.substack.com)
5 points by wrongcards 6mo ago|2 comments
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by wrongcards 8mo ago
I had the same experience when I read Ready Player One. Nearly fell out of my chair. But surely dozens of us must have played that game - dozens! BTW you had to 'incant' a ring, near the end, and I could not have figured that out
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by wrongcards 8mo ago
I taught myself to program typing out games and apps from Rainbows magazines in the mid-eighties. I was obsessed with text-adventures, and creating my own, from about age eight and onward. Playing games back then was a wildly different expe
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Don't Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted a Lot of This(krisstgabriel.substack.com)
28 points by wrongcards 1y ago|14 comments
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by wrongcards 14y ago
weedbear.com - a webcomic I don't have time to build (though my drafts are pretty funny).