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wrongcards

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About wrongcards

dad. author. former creative director, biological software engineer.

interests mostly: ricing, neovim, linux, writing funny things

blog: krisstgabriel.substack.com stgabriel.io wrongcards.com

socials: bsky.app/profile/krisstgabriel.bsky.social

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    Comment #47921237

    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…

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    Comment #47920156

    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…

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    Comment #47919587

    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 th…

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    Comment #47654636

    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 interes…

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    Comment #47083316

    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, ne…

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    Comment #47080121

    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…

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    Comment #5018105

    weedbear.com - a webcomic I don't have time to build (though my drafts are pretty funny).