Tess

sixdegrees.com

It was one of the very first social networking sites. I met my partner through there in a random chat room.
It was based on the six degrees of separation thing. You could see from any user if you were connected and through how many degrees.
I don’t remember much anymore, besides it being a place where you could meet people.

Fields of Mistria is a cute farming game like Stardew Valley, and it’s only like 800MB.

Wolf Like Me - Local H

I didn’t even know it was a remix until much later.

The magpies outside my window having a lengthy conversation.

Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups. Always verify to make sure you(and others) got all the necessary information.

You might worry that you’ll come across as inexperienced or unprepared, but people usually appreciate the effort. And it will save you so much headache down the line.

My samsung printer had terribly unreliable network access. I could never figure out what its problem was.
In the end I connected a raspberry pi zero with a cups server to the usb port and let that one handle all the printer requests. It works so much better now.

My job is important within the company, but that’s about it.
I’m not proud to do it though, just mostly amazed I got this far at all. Impostor syndrome runs strong with me and even after all these years there’s still a nagging worry that they’ll find out that I’ve been faking my competence.