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Words can't describe my love and respect for Jimmy Carter. He was a mensch. It's all because of Jimmy Carter that I've had a great career. This from a post I wrote on heyheyrenee on October 22nd, 2015: Jimmy Carter and Judge Harold Greene
This was originally posted on heyheyrenee on October 22nd, 2015. I've modified it slightly, to bring in the importance of two critical figures in my life and Internet history - President Jimmy Carter, and Judge Harold Greene. Dennis Ritchie along with Brian Kernighan wrote a book that changed
This was originally posted on heyheyrenee June 6, 2016. My first idea in technology came in 1989. I was going to sell toll free voice mailbox #'s to truckers. Back then long distance was really expensive. So the idea was that a trucker's family would call a
Last week I was introduced to a new word - enshittification. It's one word that defines what I wrote about for years on heyheyrenee.com, pieces such as this one. Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don’t Fire Us?paulie Put simply, enshittification means everything is going to shit.
Caitlin Johnstone is for me right now, the voice of the zeitgeist. Her piece today might be the most accurate I've read describing where we are today. "One point I keep trying to drive home here in as many ways as I can is that this is
$SOL (Solana token) is all the buzz on crypto twitter right now. It's up 110% in the past 2 months. Right now Ethereum's (ETH) two big problems are throughput and high transaction fees. Solana's big pitch is cheap transaction fees. But Ethereum has a
Two weeks ago Heni Discord user Pedro accused me of scamming him and others. He posted slanderous comments about me in the Discord. I asked a Heni moderator ("mod(s)") to step in, they refused to. So I stopped posting there. Pedro lied about me in front of
Love this piece that my friend Jen sent me today. The poster’s guide to the internet of the futureThe best of blogging meets the best of social media.The Verge The problem with dedicating content or time to platforms such as Discord or Twitter is that they're
Circa 2005 the Internet was grinding towards collapse. My friend Jen Wallace, co-founder of a small Colorado engineering firm, came up with a solution called Copernicus2. She patented it. Jen contacted Vint Cerf at Google to talk about it. Then Google stole their design. Here's the story. It’
I wrote this March 2012, back wen it wasn't popular to side with Microsoft. Today, Microsoft dominates the server space and gaming. Their cloud platform is outstanding. Blazor is the primo framework to use for building interactive client-side web UI apps. C# developers are everywhere. They're
From March 2012 on heyheyrenee. We were on the waiting list for the 1st Nest thermostats. I knew they were going to make a dent, they did. #### The guys who designed the iPod designed a thermostat. That's right, a thermostat. We have 5, they're the best.
Jeff and I were talking this morning about transferring data. Then he said, "kinda like the Sneakernet". The Sneakernet is how we transferred data before we had the Internet. It went like this: Put a floppy disk (floppy) into the source computer's floppy drive, execute the
This was on heyheyrenee. It belongs here too. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can
This is the first post I wrote in March 2012 covering what I needed to do to get my music and media to go from my devices to my stereo or tv. Now you just click Airplay. So I've managed to put together a media center that'
This post was first posted on heyheyrenee on 3-1-2012 ##### dialogic - video, voice & data solutions I started in tech in 1990, doing computer telephony apps. See this link... In my first business plan I wrote, "The center of commerce and communications will not be the PC -- it&
