10:43pm on January 27, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.
filepath: /home/silas/notes/2025/01/27/224330.md
uid: 8d00a50e-eb91-46e5-9cf9-652216a7cb7d
slug: 2025/01/27/224330
title: James Thomson, I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time, Three Letter Acronym, 2025
category: references
secondary: quotes
available: 2025-01-27 22:43:30
created: 2025-01-27 22:43:30
updated: 2025-01-27 22:43:30
creator: Silas Jelley
layout: default
source: {'title': 'I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time', 'creator': 'James Thomson', 'published': datetime.date(2025, 1, 4), 'publication': 'Three Letter Acronym', 'url': 'https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/', 'text': 'I should know – I had spent the previous 18 months or so as the main engineer working away on it. At that very moment, I was watching from a cubicle in Apple Cork, in Ireland. For the second time in my short Apple career, I said a quiet prayer to the gods of demos, hoping that things didn’t break. For context, I was in my twenties at this point and scared witless.\n', 'html': 'I should know – I had spent the previous 18 months or so as the main engineer working away on it. At that very moment, I was watching from a cubicle in Apple Cork, in Ireland. For the second time in my short Apple career, I said a quiet prayer to the gods of demos, hoping that things didn’t break. For context, I was in my twenties at this point and scared witless.
\n'}
via: {'url': 'https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/'}
words: {'self': 0, 'code': {'lines': 0, 'words': 0}, 'references': 73}
links: {'internal': [], 'external': ['https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/', 'https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/'], 'backlinks': []}
