"There was another page where I amassed every animated gif I could find."

Scott Smitelli, a writer best known for his gut-wrenching short story The Ideal Candidate Will Be Punched In The Stomach, joins the pod cast to talk about typing "SEX" into the local library telnet search, discovering that you and others of your ilk can complain about TechTV on a messageboard, falling in love with programming and out of love with Computer Science (we are both proud members of the Square Root Club), and drawing moral lines for yourself in an age of ubiquitous carelessness. Most importantly, we discuss our shared love of Panera Bread.

Links from the episode:

undeadsquirrel: A reskinned version of Scott's very first web site, which at one point included the "all the gifs" page

vipersniper: An extremely old blog, hosted on Scott's home computer

smitelli.com: A slightly less extremely old blog

Phil's "Bad Panera Covers" Spotify playlist. Suggestions welcome!

Cosmodoc: a detailed guide to the engineering behind Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

If it cites em dashes as proof, it came from a tool.

Altoids by the Fistful

Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net.

Music from the episode:

• Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com and stream our new album, Everything is Normal, today!
• Save Tonight by Eagle-Eye Cherry
• Best Day of my Life by American Authors
• Save Tonight by American Authors

"I wanted the background to look like carbon fiber."

OK first of all go see this web site right now. We didn't get a chance to talk about the site itself too much because we were too busy getting into how to maintain your integrity as an artist in the age of algorithms, fully unspooling the anatomy of self actualization and doom spirals, and how being your coolest self can literally save the world. But that's ok because you just gotta to to the site and see it for yourself. Again, please do so now.

Sarah is the creative mind behind 'domesticated incels'. In addition to their web site (you clicked on it, right?) they can be found on Bandcamp and Instagram. The track that closes out the episode is called Be Mine from their album Broken Eyes.

Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net.

Music: Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com

"The rewarding experience of seeing a bug on a flower of a plant that you planted, that's a really special thing. I'm a part of the ecosystem."

Web Developer slash naturalist Daniel drops by the Cast to talk about using the nascent internet to post about Mortal Kombat, being known as a "webmaster", discovering a spiritual community on Twitter, finding the other people who love "birds and bugs and weird little plants", hiding easter eggs in web sites, and using the web to find your passion and your people.

Daniel's web site is daniel.observer. Follow Daniel on Mastodon at @danielthedaring@mastodon.online.

Phil, along with his partners, will make a good web site for you at Tiger Pajamas (dot com).

Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net.

Music: Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com