{"id":35309,"date":"2026-04-01T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35309"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:29:05","slug":"long-journey-small-steps-that-sort-of-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35309","title":{"rendered":"Long Journey, Small Steps, That Sort of Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this while scrolling through Twitter a few days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"718\" height=\"647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Vivaldi_20260330_145132.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a Tweet by @AlfinCodes. There's an image of a computer tower with multiple drive bays booting up Windows XP. Caption: &quot;Developers be honest. Your coding journey started here, right?&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-35310\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>No, Alfin.  <i>My<\/i> coding journey began here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2742318451_6ba61de48c_o-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"A Timex Sinclair 1000\" class=\"wp-image-35311\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo credit: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/umpqua\/2742318451\/in\/photolist-5bk6JB-5bk6Hz-5bk6GM-5bk6Dn-5bpoFN-5bjMTv-6Y1Rbx-qwUhEN-UJvgUk-5bp5CU-UmaisS-WSonMY-5bjMSV-5mEDhc-5bjMRi-5bp5Eu-u7nwsU-m4ZvHv-jMbtYz-345GGM-u5pGg3-dWh4yt-2ivZ9Sp\">Timex Sinclair 1000<\/a>,\u201d <a>Umpqua<\/a>, licensed Creative Commons <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, the venerable Timex Sinclair 1000.  With its membrane keyboard, 2 kilobytes of memory internal, and a 16 kilobyte external memory pack.  A RF switch for connecting to the television.  A heavy DC power adapter that got hot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows XP?  I had known computers for twenty years at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>&#8220;Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Alfin!  I was there when it was written.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this while scrolling through Twitter a few days ago&#8230; No, Alfin. My coding journey began here. Yes, the venerable Timex Sinclair 1000. With its membrane keyboard, 2 kilobytes of memory internal, and a 16 kilobyte external memory pack. A RF switch for connecting to the television. A heavy DC power adapter that got<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35309\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Long Journey, Small Steps, That Sort of Thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5429,4555,5129],"class_list":["post-35309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-timex-sinclair-1000","tag-twitter","tag-windows-xp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}