Rastelli the Programmer
When he was still alive, I met the legendary hardware hacker Ur at a computer engineering conference in Hamburg. I never learned his real name, and I’m not sure he ever made it public; everyone called him by his IRC handle (this name apparently gave him some vexation, he joked, on systems that required usernames to have a three-character minimum). Ur ha…
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