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 Yulqen is a deliberate misspelling of an [Autechre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autechre) song I like.
 
-I currently live in [Berwick-upon-Tweed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed). I enjoy technology & software (the free, as in speech, kind), programming, music, photography, rugby, animals, poetry and books. I am something of a minimalist and do most things in a terminal. I am a pescatarian but will eat meat if sufficiently drunk and (apparently) starving.
+I currently live in [Berwick-upon-Tweed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwick-upon-Tweed). I enjoy technology & software (the free, as in speech, kind), [programming](programming), music, photography, rugby, animals, poetry and books. I am something of a minimalist and do most things in a terminal. I am a pescatarian but will eat meat if sufficiently drunk and (apparently) starving.
 
 This is my umpteenth web site and it will dutifully disappear in time. It is currently created using [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) making it: blazing fast, not Wordpress, static, light (no JS, therefore no BS), driven by Go and [rsyncable](https://man.openbsd.org/openrsync).
 
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+title: "Programming"
+date: 2022-07-27T07:41:37+01:00
+draft: true
+---
+
+### BASIC
+
+Programming started in circa 1985 with BASIC on the Sinclair Spectrum 48K. I was able to do basic looping, make things flash, beep and do more complex things by copying code from books and magazines. Earned a Computing badge at Scouts after making a database (in rudimentary BASIC) for my Dad's antique business.
+
+### HTML/Javascript
+
+Worked in the web team of a UK Government Department as a "Web Producer", converting to HTML Word documents sent to us on 1.44MB floppy drives. Javascript back then was for making things pop-up and flash.
+
+Had various hobby blogs and web sites, hosted for free using space provided by my ISP (Pipex?), including one that stuck, [MadHaddy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020216192240/http://www.madhaddy.com/), about my home town in Scotland. Over a couple of years it got quite a following. One of the pubs in the town complained about the site calling it out for serving under-age drinkers. Conversations relating to drugs appears on the forums. After two years I took it down to minimise the hassle. I wish the images were still available on the archive because MadHaddy was largely an exercise "satirical" photography for me - I enjoyed confusing the populace by Photoshopping photos of the town. Also, the purile writing... Great fun.
+
+I still prefer flat-file web sites now of course.
+
+### Ruby
+
+Round about 2004, I got sucked into the Ruby/Rails wave of popularity. It was cool, but never really stuck, other than as a gateway to more sustainable drugs...
+
+### Python
+
+... such as Python, which did stick.