Bill Budge 🇺🇦

From now on please call me "The One Big Beautiful Bill."

I'm still sticking with the benevolent elderly man rather than the malevolent elderly man.

"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and sell expensive toys?"

I think at this point we can turn ChatGPT loose on the whole Marvel universe corpus and replace 50% of Hollywood

@RichardGarriott @BrianFargo Although at a certain point it's not about bits and bytes and instructions and languages, but about knowing what to build. You are great!

@BrianFargo I was just jealous @BillB was a way better programmer than me.

We all became good friends, the creators of Wizardry, Bard’s Tale and most of the other early creators of CRPG’s.

USING ALL CAPS SHOWS THAT YOU GIVE A SHIFT.

The last thing on my bucket list is to get a bucket

Going with the flow. Unfortunately the flow doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

Rainbow at OAK

The Big Bang must have come after The Big Refactoring.

Oh Visual Studio Code how cynical you are, autocompleting my TODO comment with "yada yada".

@Saturnation8 I remember it. I wish I had been more encouraging though!

@billb It was a bit disappointing (the result, not the reply) and I cherished that letter for the longest time. Sadly I've moved oversea a few times and I've lost the letter, but I'm still amazed that someone I admired actually responded. And I never thanked you. So, thank you!

@BillB When I was in high school in the early '80s I wrote you a letter regarding a Crazy Climber game for the Apple ][. You sent me back a really nice hand written letter explaining that this wasn't what you were doing and went into some detail about what you valued.

Giving up on JavaScript. Taking the leap and rewriting in TypeScript. I'm a newb but already finding lots of bugs. There is hope...

If only all programs could be "toy" programs.

Poking around on amazon dot com this morning in Chrome DevTools, they are loading #Wasm files for their media player. #WebAssembly Article about it here amazon.science/blog/how-prime…

Marveling at the system that can deliver a summer fruit salad to me in northern California mid-winter. photos.app.goo.gl/zggLVcBYAx2eQ7…

Thank you Al for helping me get started as a games programmer. Rest in peace, buddy.

In the end, we had an unhappy split. I decided I could do the publishing part and started my own company, BudgeCo. He took the news badly ("Bill, I don't know you. You're a chameleon.")

Oh yes, I remember Al Remmers. twitter.com/tcwpodcast/sta…