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2026 ¹²⁴

September ⁴⁵

One Month, Two AI Robots: What Claude and ChatGPT Built for Me

September 26, 2026 · 2 min · 284 words · Justin

I Handed My AI the Keys to My Android Phones

September 26, 2026 · 8 min · 1606 words · Justin

90s Kid - Asking the Search Portal

September 26, 2026 · 3 min · 495 words · Justin

90s Kid - Sign My Guestbook

September 25, 2026 · 4 min · 711 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Webring

September 24, 2026 · 3 min · 556 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Under Construction Page

September 23, 2026 · 3 min · 574 words · Justin

The Pole Camera Field Guide

September 23, 2026 · 11 min · 2193 words · Justin

90s Kid - The IRC Chatroom

September 22, 2026 · 4 min · 646 words · Justin

90s Kid - Your ICQ Number

September 21, 2026 · 3 min · 614 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Winamp Visualizer

September 20, 2026 · 3 min · 621 words · Justin

90s Kid - Napster and the Mystery Download

September 19, 2026 · 3 min · 505 words · Justin

The AI Had a Plan for the Mansion

September 18, 2026 · 5 min · 1056 words · Justin

90s Kid - The 32 MB MP3 Player

September 18, 2026 · 3 min · 451 words · Justin

I Have the Idea. Getting It Out Is the Hard Part.

September 18, 2026 · 5 min · 855 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Rechargeable Batteries

September 17, 2026 · 3 min · 567 words · Justin

What the Hell Is in That Building?

September 17, 2026 · 5 min · 880 words · Justin

Two Towers Behind the Car Lot

September 17, 2026 · 7 min · 1360 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Calculator Watch

September 16, 2026 · 3 min · 551 words · Justin

Apparently I Was Starting a Business

September 16, 2026 · 4 min · 817 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Camera That Used Floppy Disks

September 15, 2026 · 3 min · 638 words · Justin

The Little Lights at Grandma Ann’s House

September 15, 2026 · 4 min · 777 words · Justin

90s Kid - I Went Outside. There Was Infrastructure.

September 14, 2026 · 2 min · 365 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Disposable Camera

September 14, 2026 · 2 min · 417 words · Justin

Being Good at Things Is Apparently Confusing

September 14, 2026 · 4 min · 789 words · Justin

90s Kid - The VHS-C Adapter

September 13, 2026 · 3 min · 486 words · Justin

Forty Years Without the Right Manual

September 13, 2026 · 4 min · 794 words · Justin

The Mystery Boxes on Pueblo’s Utility Poles

September 12, 2026 · 11 min · 2248 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Electronic Organizer

September 12, 2026 · 3 min · 513 words · Justin

I Just Wanted to Ride the Fucking Ferris Wheel

September 12, 2026 · 4 min · 757 words · Justin

90s Kid - Beaming With Infrared

September 11, 2026 · 3 min · 518 words · Justin

The Nurse Who Brought Me a Laptop

September 11, 2026 · 4 min · 762 words · Justin

90s Kid - Learning PalmPilot Graffiti

September 10, 2026 · 3 min · 556 words · Justin

Still Building

September 10, 2026 · 27 min · 5716 words · Justin

Apparently, My Job Is Talking to My Phone Now

September 9, 2026 · 4 min · 735 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Payphone Quarter

September 9, 2026 · 3 min · 428 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Collect Call Name

September 8, 2026 · 3 min · 452 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Fax Machine

September 7, 2026 · 3 min · 557 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Cordless Phone With the Giant Antenna

September 6, 2026 · 3 min · 487 words · Justin

90s Kid - The TV Guide Channel

September 5, 2026 · 3 min · 452 words · Justin

90s Kid - Adjusting the Tracking

September 4, 2026 · 3 min · 467 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Sega Channel

September 3, 2026 · 2 min · 383 words · Justin

Wispr Flow’s Android Bubble Was There—It Was Just Invisible

September 2, 2026 · 8 min · 1666 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Game Genie

September 2, 2026 · 3 min · 606 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Rumble Pak

September 1, 2026 · 3 min · 539 words · Justin

Wispr Flow Is Great Dictation, Not a Transcript

September 1, 2026 · 12 min · 2466 words · Justin

August ²⁵

90s Kid - The Link Cable

August 31, 2026 · 3 min · 444 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Shareware Nag Screen

August 30, 2026 · 3 min · 598 words · Justin

Signals in the Restricted Desert: Area 51’s FM Transmitters

August 29, 2026 · 11 min · 2139 words · Justin

90s Kid - The CD Burner Coaster

August 29, 2026 · 3 min · 556 words · Justin

90s Kid - Calibrating the Joystick

August 28, 2026 · 3 min · 524 words · Justin

90s Kid - Cleaning the Mouse Ball

August 27, 2026 · 3 min · 481 words · Justin

90s Kid - The IRQ Conflict

August 26, 2026 · 3 min · 619 words · Justin

90s Kid - Press F8 for Safe Mode

August 25, 2026 · 3 min · 491 words · Justin

90s Kid - Ctrl Alt Delete

August 24, 2026 · 3 min · 607 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Blue Screen

August 23, 2026 · 3 min · 588 words · Justin

90s Kid - Watching the Defrag Screen

August 22, 2026 · 3 min · 541 words · Justin

90s Kid - It Is Now Safe to Turn Off Your Computer

August 21, 2026 · 3 min · 535 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Start Button

August 20, 2026 · 3 min · 460 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Tamagotchi Emergency

August 19, 2026 · 2 min · 336 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Night Y2K Was Supposed to Eat the World

August 18, 2026 · 2 min · 323 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Turbo Button

August 17, 2026 · 2 min · 334 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Memory Card

August 16, 2026 · 2 min · 345 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Zip Disk

August 15, 2026 · 2 min · 331 words · Justin

8 GB Price, 16 GB Prize: My UNVR G2 Shipped With Double RAM

August 14, 2026 · 3 min · 578 words · Justin

90s Kid - The AIM Away Message

August 14, 2026 · 2 min · 345 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Discman and the Skip

August 13, 2026 · 2 min · 345 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Caller ID Box

August 12, 2026 · 2 min · 359 words · Justin

90s Kid - Channel 3 Was Not a Channel

August 11, 2026 · 2 min · 340 words · Justin

I Put One Disposable IP on the Internet. Five Hours Later, Mirai Showed Up.

August 10, 2026 · 4 min · 731 words · Justin

90s Kid - The AOL CD That Would Not Stop Arriving

August 3, 2026 · 2 min · 388 words · Justin

June ¹⁰

The Phantom Bad Blocks: How a 15-Year-Old Linux Bug Took Down 75 Security Cameras

June 11, 2026 · 8 min · 1555 words · Justin

The Alert That Went to Nobody

June 9, 2026 · 4 min · 818 words · Justin

The TLS Cert Only an API Could Renew

June 9, 2026 · 4 min · 772 words · Justin

When Postgres Won’t Start

June 8, 2026 · 5 min · 860 words · Justin

The Sensor That Cried Wolf

June 7, 2026 · 5 min · 857 words · Justin

Why Your Fitness Tracker’s Correlations Are Lying to You

June 6, 2026 · 5 min · 883 words · Justin

The App That Wouldn’t Open After an Update

June 5, 2026 · 4 min · 768 words · Justin

Teaching a Computer to Mute the Sounds I Hate

June 4, 2026 · 5 min · 904 words · Justin

I Found My Own Server on Shodan

June 3, 2026 · 4 min · 767 words · Justin

Seven Network Gotchas That Look Like Ghosts

June 2, 2026 · 4 min · 787 words · Justin

May ¹³

The 99 Access Points That Didn’t Exist

May 29, 2026 · 4 min · 816 words · Justin

The Smart Blind That Took Down an Entire Network

May 28, 2026 · 5 min · 885 words · Justin

The Deploy Script That Ate the Production Database

May 24, 2026 · 4 min · 732 words · Justin

I Found a Secret in a Git Repo (It Was Mine)

May 21, 2026 · 4 min · 837 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Day We Got 56k

May 20, 2026 · 3 min · 540 words · Justin

The PWA That Froze When Offline

May 20, 2026 · 5 min · 873 words · Justin

The API Loop That Ran Up the Bill Overnight

May 18, 2026 · 4 min · 844 words · Justin

One Caddyfile, Infinite Subdomains

May 17, 2026 · 4 min · 772 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Dot-Matrix Printer

May 15, 2026 · 3 min · 534 words · Justin

The Subdomain That Pointed at Nothing

May 12, 2026 · 4 min · 798 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Universal Remote

May 10, 2026 · 3 min · 476 words · Justin

Getting Cameras Out of the Walled Garden

May 10, 2026 · 4 min · 664 words · Justin

90s Kid - The LAN Party

May 5, 2026 · 3 min · 519 words · Justin

April ¹²

90s Kid - The CRT and the Static Zap

April 30, 2026 · 3 min · 521 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Boot Disk

April 25, 2026 · 3 min · 452 words · Justin

The Backup That Hung Forever on OneDrive

April 22, 2026 · 5 min · 888 words · Justin

90s Kid - Flying Toasters and the Screen Saver

April 20, 2026 · 3 min · 474 words · Justin

Two Apps, One Port

April 18, 2026 · 4 min · 827 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Surge Protector Everything Plugged Into

April 15, 2026 · 3 min · 549 words · Justin

The Bot That Hung Because of IPv6

April 15, 2026 · 4 min · 799 words · Justin

How a Mesh VPN Killed My SSH Jump Host

April 11, 2026 · 4 min · 803 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Pager

April 10, 2026 · 3 min · 487 words · Justin

The Speaker That Caused a Network Storm

April 8, 2026 · 5 min · 862 words · Justin

Making a Python Script a Real Service

April 6, 2026 · 4 min · 678 words · Justin

90s Kid - Encarta and the Encyclopedia on a Disc

April 5, 2026 · 3 min · 460 words · Justin

March ¹⁰

90s Kid - Be Kind, Rewind

March 31, 2026 · 3 min · 441 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Walkman and the Pencil

March 26, 2026 · 3 min · 476 words · Justin

90s Kid - The VCR That Blinked 12:00 Forever

March 21, 2026 · 3 min · 502 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Answering Machine

March 16, 2026 · 3 min · 482 words · Justin

The Firewall API Call That Factory-Resets Your Router

March 12, 2026 · 5 min · 853 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Floppy Disk

March 11, 2026 · 3 min · 544 words · Justin

The Payment That Showed $0 (But Wasn’t)

March 8, 2026 · 4 min · 815 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Cable Box and Its Wired Remote

March 6, 2026 · 3 min · 479 words · Justin

How My Own Backup Deleted My Files

March 4, 2026 · 4 min · 723 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Phone Cord That Reached the Whole House

March 1, 2026 · 3 min · 500 words · Justin

February ⁹

When Your Backup Client Lies About Its Name

February 27, 2026 · 4 min · 795 words · Justin

The git rm That Deleted 30,000 Files

February 25, 2026 · 4 min · 774 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Antenna on the Roof

February 24, 2026 · 3 min · 447 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Family Computer in the Living Room

February 19, 2026 · 3 min · 483 words · Justin

The Settings API That Corrupted Every Setting at Once

February 19, 2026 · 4 min · 849 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Sound of Dial-Up

February 14, 2026 · 3 min · 501 words · Justin

90s Kid - The Box on the Side of the House

February 11, 2026 · 2 min · 227 words · Justin

I’m Not Old — I Watched the Internet Get Installed

February 10, 2026 · 3 min · 607 words · Justin

OpenClaw Smart AI Model routing to reduce cost

February 4, 2026 · 10 min · 2055 words · Justin

2025 ¹³

October ¹

Google Drive and OneDrive ARE NOT backups

October 22, 2025 · 1 min · 60 words · Justin

September ¹

My digital brain developed with AI

September 15, 2025 · 1 min · 132 words · Justin

July ¹

online security gut check. secure yourself now.

July 8, 2025 · 2 min · 394 words · Justin

June ³

Ransomware: It’s Like an Escape Room… But With Your Business.

June 21, 2025 · 1 min · 128 words · Justin

Explosive home remedies

June 18, 2025 · 1 min · 12 words · Justin

EyeBong

June 18, 2025 · 1 min · 17 words · Justin

May ²

No Fires Today (Because I Put Them Out at 4AM)

May 19, 2025 · 1 min · 80 words · Justin

Click this. Click that. Install this. Run that. Update this. Reboot that.

May 18, 2025 · 1 min · 168 words · Justin

April ²

prednisolone

April 24, 2025 · 1 min · 114 words · Justin

Ways to Spot a Scam (Without Even Updating Your Firewall)

April 13, 2025 · 1 min · 187 words · Justin

March ²

My life

March 18, 2025 · 7 min · 1480 words · Justin

Men in suits: The world’s most successful scammers.

March 2, 2025 · 1 min · 77 words · Justin

February ¹

Breaking news: Colorado takeover starts tomorrow

February 18, 2025 · 1 min · 161 words · Justin

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