To The Rescue

Saw a man knocked out at Nippori Station today. Some people were watching, but I went straight to the man to check on him. His nose was bleeding. “Please lay still. This is only superficial. You will be okay,” I told him. A bystander asked me if I was a doctor. I said no, put on my sunglasses, and said “I’m a Web developer.”

I started a retrowave mix on my smartphone. I launched a terminal app to SSH into a server. Wrote a Ruby script to call a remote API, which notified the station clerk about this incident. In a minute, the clerk came to assist. That’s when I started an animation on my phone to look like I’m hacking and being cool about it.

The man thanked me. “I owe you one,” he said. “Actually, my hourly fee is nothing you can afford. But if you let me open source this story, you won’t have to worry about it,” I replied. He nodded and smiled.

Then, I wrote a shell script to fly myself to my destination.

/usr/local/bin/gtfo -now and lift off!

Originally posted on Medium on 30th January 2017.