Programming

I’m more of a programmer than I am a runner.

Although most of this book is just running race reports, that’s because I’m trying to write something for each of my events and I do a lot of events. In the past I wrote up notes to myself and I thought it wouldn’t take that much more time to write reports I could share with my family or my crazy friends. Turns out I’m a slow writer in addition to being a slow runner.

Anyway, most of my programming time these days is spent writing mb2, and mb2 has its own issue tracker. So although I write more programming prose than running prose, little of it shows up here.

However, before mb2, I created some semi-notable software, including Executor¹ and multibot². Executor gave Sam Lantinga an excuse to write SDL. Although Sam probably would have created SDL regardless, I still got a nice shout-out in SDL’s Credits.

For now, I’ll just add a page to the programming section every once in a while, typically when I’ve already written the text as an email for one reason or another.

1. Steve Jobs called me at home when I was in bed with pneumonia and I did not handle the call well. Additionally, John Perry Barlow used Executor but his literal first words to me in person were “You’re an asshole.” (said mostly in jest). Here’s a little review of Executor-MSW from the Summer 1992 edition of NeXTWORLD magazine. ↩

2. Multibot was the first software to deal multi-table poker tournaments on the internet. You won’t find it via a web search though, because I sold it to Poker School Online where it was used for years. If there’s interest, I’ll write more on multibot. ↩