11 Dec
2022
11 Dec
'22
11:18 p.m.
In the late 1990s I did a brief consulting project to move files between sites. Something
to do with customer billing and record transmission, from some large system that was not
Internet-connected. It ended up being a terrible teetering tower of kermit, sz or sx, and
expect. But it got the job done!
The funny thing about that...the project spanned the July 4th weekend. I didn't get
it working before the 4th. Then when I went in very hungover after the weekend, I
couldn't figure out quite what I had been trying to do, because it was something that
was attempting to be very clever. So in my dulled state, I rewrote the bottom layers to
be much more straightforward. Worked the first time. That taught me the virtue of not
overthinking it.
Adam