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I'm Bertrand Fan, but my friends call me bert. I'm an engineer on the Platform team at Slack where I spend a lot of time thinking about how people can build apps on top of Slack.
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Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot
In the early to mid-90s, I ran a BBS out of my bedroom. It wasn't very popular, but I did have a lot of time on my hands and I spent a lot of that time modding it. Initially, I wrote mods for myself, but eventually I started releasing them to other people
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ChatGPT in DR SBAITSO
One of my first sound cards was a Sound Blaster, which was pretty mindblowing when all you had heard before it was an IBM PC speaker.
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Installing a payphone in my house
When I was growing up in the 90s, I remember wanting to get on the Internet. My parents weren't going to help me, so I called up an ISP and said I wanted to set up an account. They asked for my name and I gave them a fake name. And then they asked for a c
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The Best Starting Word in WORDLE
Have you played WORDLE yet? It's a clever word game that's basically Mastermind with 5-letter words.
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IoT Nixie Tubes
Every day I make a cup of coffee, organize a list of the things I want to do that day, and try to work through it. Every time I finish one of the tasks, I mark it as complete. By the end of the day, ideally there are no things left on the list, but if the
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