{"id":23,"date":"2016-09-22T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T12:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/?p=23"},"modified":"2024-02-10T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T12:43:43","slug":"why-hotcoder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/2016\/09\/22\/why-hotcoder\/","title":{"rendered":"why &#8220;hotcoder&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working as a developer in London back in 1999 when the now-famous HTML email system <strong>hotmail<\/strong> really began to gain popularity. \u00a0I liked the idea of the email address <strong>hotcoder@hotmail.com<\/strong>\u00a0so I registered it and used it for the next few years. \u00a0Hotmail fell out of fashion but I guess the hotcoder handle just stuck; I registered hotcoder.co.uk as a domain and have used it ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working as a developer in London back in 1999 when the now-famous HTML email system hotmail really began to gain popularity. \u00a0I liked the idea of the email address hotcoder@hotmail.com\u00a0so I registered it and used it for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rlthomas.me\/hotcoder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}