The Story of Max, a Real Programmer
Sun 29 June 2025
This is a story about Imagebin. Imagebin is the longest-lived software project that I still maintain. I'm the only user. I use it to host images, mainly to include in my blog, sometimes for sharing in other places. Imagebin's oldest changelog entry is dated May 2010, but I know it had already existed for about a year before I had the idea of keeping a changelog.
Here's an image hosted by Imagebin:
For years Imagebin was wide open to the public and anybody could upload their own images to it. Almost nobody did. But a couple of years ago I finally put a password on it during a paranoid spell.
But actually this is not a story about Imagebin. This is a story about the boy genius who wrote it, and the ways of his craft.
Lest a whole new generation of programmers
grow up in ignorance of this glorious past,
I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
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