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Episode: 4459
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Title: HPR4459: How I got into tech
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4459/hpr4459.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:54:21
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4459 for Thursday 4 September 2025.
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Today's show is entitled How I Got Into Tech.
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It is part of the series How I Got Into Tech.
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It is the first show by New Host Watchseach, and is about 4 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, I describe how I got into technology and what stories I would like to
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tell.
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Hello, I'm Wojciech, I'm from Poland, I'm a nerd, I work as a software engineer.
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I've found Hacker Public Radio about a year ago and wanted to record a show since, but
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life is always busy.
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I'm trying things out, I'm in a supermarket parking lot in my car, this is my second attempt.
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So we see how it goes.
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So how I got into tech.
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In a way I've kind of always been there, at least since I was a child.
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The story that I like to tell is that when I was about 4, my cousin launched me
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Mortal Kombat on his Amiga computer and I got interested, that's my oldest tech-related
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memory.
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As a kid I mostly just played video games, mostly on clones of 8-bit consoles like Atari 2600
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or NES, later some unspecified models of Commodore and Schneider computers.
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I don't even remember what exact models they were.
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I got my first PC at about 10 years old, it was an Intel 486-SX 12 megabytes of RAM,
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850 megabytes hard drive running Windows 95.
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Mostly playing games on the computer, but as it was running Windows, as you may be
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know, with Windows con-problems, sometimes using these but not always, spoiler has been
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over 25 years and this trend continues.
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Around the same time my sister went to high school and got a Turbo Pascal textbook.
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This is what really interested me in programming.
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And that's why my interests and career in software development began.
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Since that time I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do in life.
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I just knew I wanted to work with computers, primarily doing software engineering.
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I went to a technical university, wrote some university of science and technology, I think
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that's the English name.
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Then I got interested in other computer-related things like networking and I also got into
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digital and analog electronics just because I really wanted to go that to one level deeper
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to learn more about how computers work electronics in general.
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I also have other interests, both tech and non-tech-related, like for example science fictionly
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literature and I would like to record some shows about those in the future, we shall
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see.
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There is one specific story I want to tell, but I think I will save it for October.
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Why October?
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Because this is a workplace horror story about Windows.
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Well, not really a horror story, but it was really bizarre and can be described as such.
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In the meantime, I don't want to promise anything, but maybe I record a show on what I am
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currently doing at work, which is the topic of audit trail in software applications.
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But I am chaotic and I may do something entirely different, we shall see.
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I think that's all that I want to say today.
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I would really appreciate if you left some feedback, it was the audio ok, it's my English
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enough, did I speak too fast, English is not my first language and I've noticed over
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the years that I really tend to speak too fast when using English.
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And that's it, thank you for listening, hopefully we are here in the future.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording podcasts, then click on our contribute link to find out
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how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HBR has been kindly provided by www.monsthost.com, the internet archive
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and our syncs.net.
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On this address status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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