The Wrath of Kon

Dispatches, thoughts, and miscellanea from writer Jon Konrath

Month: May 2022

  • The backpack

    My nephew is graduating high school and going to Indiana University to study computer science in the fall, which has set off all sorts of nostalgia triggers for me, as I think about when I made the same journey 247 years ago. My sister updates me on various registration and orientation events and visits and…

  • Finger

    There was an interesting post that came up recently about the history of the unfortunately-named finger command in unix here. This jogged a few memories for me, because I remember finger as being the early precursor to blogs, web pages, and social media platforms. Back in the days of unix and logging into mainframes and…